Poly-Olbion. or A chorographicall description of tracts, riuers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine
Subtitle: with intermixture of the most remarquable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarityes, pleasures, and commodities of the same
By: digested in a poem by Michael Drayton, Esq. ; With a table added, for direction to those occurrences of story and antiquitie, whereunto the course of the volume easily leades not
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1377:14
Publisher: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie.
Published: 1613
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Description and travel; Poetry; Early works to 1800; Poetry of places
Other titles: Chorographicall description of tracts, riuers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine
Work titles: Poly-Olbion. Part 1
Notes: With an additional title page, engraved, signed: Ingraue[n] by W Hole.

Leaves consist of 18 folded maps and 1 port.

The page following p. 303 is blank.

The first leaf bears verses "Vpon the frontispice."

Partly in verse.

With "illustrations" or notes by John Selden.

Signatures: pi⁴A⁴[fleuron]⁴B-2C⁶2D².

A reissue, with printed title-page and a table, of the edition of [1612]; this was reissued again in 1622 with a second part consisting of twelve songs. Cf. Pforzheimer 308-309.

"The maps have page numbers, and the portrait is named: 'HENRICVS PRINCEPS' ... Letterpress tp varies; most copies have 'Esq.' below Drayton's name; a few have early states omitting 'Esq.' and w[ith] Drayton's name followed by a comma or a full stop."--STC (2nd ed.)

Head- and tail-pieces and initials.

STC (2nd ed.) 7227

STC 7227