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Author Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
Uniform Title Poly-Olbion. Part 1
Title 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.
Alternative Title Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain
Faerie land
Publication Info London : Printed for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622.



Descript [18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates : maps, port.
Note 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.
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Author Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
Series Early English books online.
Subject England -- Description and travel -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Hole, William, -1624.
Selden, John, 1584-1654.
Alternative Title Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain
Faerie land
Descript [18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates : maps, port.
Note 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.
Author Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
Series Early English books online.
Subject England -- Description and travel -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Hole, William, -1624.
Selden, John, 1584-1654.
Alternative Title Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain
Faerie land

Subject England -- Description and travel -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates : maps, port.
Note 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.
Alt author Hole, William, -1624.
Selden, John, 1584-1654.

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