A chorographicall description of tracts, riuers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain : with intermixture of the most remarkeable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the same. Diuided into two bookes ; the latter containing twelue songs, neuer before imprinted. Digested into a poem by Michael Drayton. Esquire. With a table added, for direction to those occurrences of story and antiquitie, whereunto the course of the volume easily leades not.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.

Contributor:

Selden, John, 1584-1654.

Hole, William, -1624, engraver.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1201:1.

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.

Physical Description:

[18], 303, [9] pages, [18] folded leaves of plates : maps, portrait

Other Title:

Poly-Olbion. Part 1

Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain

Faerie land

Place of Publication:

London : Printed [by Humphrey Lownes and Augustine Mathewes] for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622.

Notes:

Edited by John Selden.

Partly in verse.

With an additional title page, engraved, "Poly-Olbion", signed: Ingraue[n] by W Hole.

A reissue of part 1 of "Poly-Olbion", printed by Humphrey Lownes, [1612], with added letterpress title page (printed by Augustine Mathewes) and index. In this issue the plates have page numbers and the portrait of Henry Frederick has his name.

Part 2 is separately entered at STC 7229-30.

Variant: with half-title "The faerie land" overprinted on first leaf recto by John Lichfield, Oxford, ca. 1630 (STC).

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1970. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1201:1).

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 7228

OCLC:

222462165