Poly-olbion. or A chorographicall description of tracts, riuers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine, : with intermixture of the most remarquable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarityes, pleasures, and commodities of the same: /
Drayton, Michael,1563-1631.
Hole, William,-1624.
Selden, John,1584-1654.
Henry Frederick,Prince of Wales,1594-1612.
London : printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie,
1613.
Edited by John Selden.
Partly in verse.
With an additional title page, engraved, signed: Ingraue[n] by W Hole.
Printer's name from STC.
The first leaf bears verses "Vpon the frontispice".
A second part was published in 1622.
A reissue of the [1612] edition, with added letterpress title page and index. In this issue the plates have page numbers and the portrait of Henry Frederick has his name.
Variant: letterpress title page lacks "Esq.", and with either a comma or a period after "Drayton".
Signatures: pi² ²pi1 ³pi² A⁴ B-2C⁶ 2D² [fleuron]⁴.
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC