A chorographicall description of all the 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 tw 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.
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- A chorographicall description of all the 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 tw 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.
- Poly-Olbion. Part 1
- Chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain Faerie land
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London: printed [by Humphrey Lownes and Augustine Mathewes] for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622.
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- 1622-1622
- ESTC No.
- S121639
- Grub Street ID
- 141215
- Description
- [18], 303, [9] p., [18] folded plates : maps, port. ; 2⁰
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- 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.
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- Signatures from DFo