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Record Nr.

UNISA996391504103316

Autore

Drayton Michael <1563-1631.>

Titolo

Poly-Olbion. or A chorographicall description of tracts, riuers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britaine [[electronic resource] ] : 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes : I. Browne : I. Helme, and I. Busbie, 1613

Descrizione fisica

[18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates : maps, port. (metal cut)

Altri autori (Persone)

SeldenJohn <1584-1654.>

Soggetti

England Description and travel Poetry Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113