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Record Nr.

UNISA996391514503316

Autore

Drayton Michael <1563-1631.>

Titolo

A chorographicall description of tracts, riuers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain [[electronic resource] ] : 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622

Descrizione fisica

[18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates : maps, port

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, "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.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014