Beschreibung:

Drayton, Michael. [POLY-OLBION]. A CHOROGRAPHICALL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE TRACTS, RIVERS, 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. DIVIDED INTO TWO BOOKES; THE LATTER CONTAINING TWELVE SONGS, NEVER BEFORE IMPRINTED. FOR JOHN MARRIOTT, JOHN GRISMAND, AND THOMAS DEWE, 1622 folio, first complete edition, 2 parts in one volume (the first edited by John Selden), third issue of Part I with final sheet correctly signed "Dd" and "FINIS" omitted between headpiece and tailpiece (McKerrow and Ferguson 183, 186) on Dd2r, variant of Part 2 with author's name inserted above printer's device on title, engraved allegorical additional title-page by W. Hole of Britannia seated beneath triumphal arch with figures of conquerors, engraved portrait of the poem's dedicatee Prince Henry by W. Hole, separate title-page to second part, 30 double-page engraved maps representing each region (one map duplicated), woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, late nineteenth century green morocco ornately gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece and title page extended with some slight repairs just affecting plate, a few tiny tears to maps neatly repaired, some minor staining and wear to leaves at beginning and end, a few minor scuff marks to covers