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), engraved allegorical additional title-page (with title Poly-Olbion) and 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, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, late nineteenth-century gilt-panelled calf, binder's ticket of Upham's Library, Bath, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, occasional light spotting, some scratches to covers and wear to extremities, otherwise a fine clean copy
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), engraved allegorical additional title-page (with title Poly-Olbion) and 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, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, late nineteenth-century gilt-panelled calf, binder's ticket of Upham's Library, Bath, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, occasional light spotting, some scratches to covers and wear to extremities, otherwise a fine clean copy
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