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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: 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.
LIBRA STC 7227
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Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 1377:14.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1377:14.
- Standardized Title:
- Poly-Olbion. Part 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England--Description and travel--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Local Subjects:
- England--Description and travel--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 18 unnumbered pages, 303 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 18 unnumbered folded plates : maps, portrait (metal cut)
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- Poly-Olbion. Part 1.
- Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine.
- Poly-Olbion. or A chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie, 1613.
- Notes:
- 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".
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1975. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1377:14). s1975 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 7227.
- OCLC:
- 55174307
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