An edition of 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. (1613)

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.

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An edition of 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. (1613)

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.

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Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie
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Pages
303

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Early works to 1800, Poetry, Description and travel
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England

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

STC (2nd ed.) 7227.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1975. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1377:14).

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Series
Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1377:14.
Genre
Poetry, Early works to 1800.
Other Titles
Poly-Olbion., 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.

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[18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates
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303

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