Poly-Olbion : or a chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine
Abstract/Contents
- Table of contents
- Part 1: Map 1. The Sabrinian Sea -- Map 2. [Dorsetshere and Hampshere] -- Map 3. [Somerset and Wiltshere] -- Map 4. [Glamourganshyre and Monmouthshyre] -- Map 5. [Penbrokshyre and Carmardenshyre] -- Map 6. [Cardyganshyre, Mountgomeryshyre and Radnorshyre] -- Map 7. [Parte of Glocestershyre, Herefordshyre and Parte of Worestershyre] -- Map 8. The parte of Shropshyre, one the west of Severne -- Map 9. [The Ile of Anglesey, Carnarvanshyre, and Merionethshyre] -- Map 10. Denbighshyre -- Map 11. Chesshyre -- Map 12. Parte of Shropshyre on the east of Severne -- Map 13. [Parte of Staffordshyre, Warwickshyre, and Parte of Lestershyre] -- Map 14. [Glocestershyre and Parte of Worcestershyre] -- Map 15. [Oxfordshyre and Buckinghamshyre] -- Map 16. [Midlesex and Hartfordshyre] -- Map 17. [Surrey and Sussex] -- Map 18. Kent
- Part 2: Map 19. [Parte of Suffolk and Essex] -- Map 20. Norfolcke -- Map 21. [Parte of Huntingdonshire, The Isle of Ely, and Cambridgeshire] -- Map 22. [Bedfordeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Parte of Cambridgeshire] -- Map 23. [Parte of Rutlandeshyre, Northamptonshyre, and Parte of Bedfordshyre] -- Map 24. [Rutlandeshyre and Parte of Northamptonshyre] -- Map 25. Lincolneshyre -- Map 26. [Darbyshyre, Nottinghamshyre, and Lecestershyre] -- Map 27. [The Ile of Man and Lancashyre] -- Map 28. Yorkeshyre -- Map 29. Northumberlande -- Map 30. [Cumberlande and Westmorlande]
Description
| Alternative title | The second part : or a continvance of Poly-Olbion from the eighteenth song. Containing all the tracts, rivers, mountaines, and forrests: intermixed with the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the east, and northerne parts of this isle, lying betwixt the two famous rivers of Thames, and Tweed |
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| Alternative title | Poly-Olbion, M. Drayton, 1613 |
| Uniform title | Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. Poly-Olbion |
| Type of resource | cartographic |
| Form | electronic; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 atlas (2 parts, bound together) : illustrations, 30 double maps (engravings) ; 29 cm (fol.) |
| Place | England |
| Place | London |
| Place | London |
| Publisher | printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie, printed by Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe |
| Publication date | 1613 - 1622; 1613 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
| Map data | Scales differ ; W 6°06'00"--E 2°36'00"/N 55°50'00"--N 49°50'00"). |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631 | |
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| Engraver | Hole, William, -1624 | |
| Publisher | Lownes, Matthew, -1625 | |
| Publisher | Helme, John, -1616 or 1617 | |
| Publisher | Busby, John, -1613 | |
| Publisher | Marriott, John, active 1616-1657 | |
| Publisher | Grismond, John | |
| Publisher | Dewe, Thomas | |
| Printer | Matthewes, Augustine |
Subjects
| Subject | Europe > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
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| Subject | England > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Wales > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Irish Sea > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | North Sea > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Genre | Atlas |
| Genre | Cartographic image-cri |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | with intermixture of the most remarquable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarityes, pleasures, and commodities of the fame: digested in a poem by Michael Drayton, Esq. |
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| Note | Epic topographical poem (divided into 30 songs) describing England and Wales, illustrated with maps. |
| Note | Relief shown pictorially. |
| Note | Index: A table to the chiefest passages, in the illustrations, which, worthiest of observation, or inserted by digression, are not directed unto by the course of the volume. |
| Note | Leather binding. |
| Note | Gold-leafed fore-edges. |
| Note | Part 1: [4] pages, [3], A 4, 4 leaves, 303, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates, [18] double leaves of plates -- part 2: [1], A 2, [2] leaves, 168, [4] pages, [12] double leaves of plates. |
| Note | First 4 and last 4 pages blank (included in page description). |
| Note | Engraved frontispiece (with preceding descriptive text), title pages (1 for each part), head and tail-pieces throughout. |
| Note | Dedications: To the high and mightie, Henrie, Prince of Wales (part 1); To the high and mightie, Charles Prince of Wales (part 2). |
| Note | Introductory text. |
| Note | Maps depict places anthropomorphically (e.g. cities appear as maidens crowned with cathedrals). |
| Note | Maps show topography, vegetation, waterways, shoals, ports. |
| Note | Illustrations of figures (including mythical), flora and fauna, ships, sea monsters. |
| Note | Numbers at tops of plates indicating adjacent page numbers. |
| Note | Map 1 has Poseidon. |
| Note | Map 4 has large band of musicians. |
| Note | Map 14 has farmers. |
| Note | Map 18 has pictorial representation of London. |
| Note | Map 25 has marshland with various birds. |
| Local note | This copy has pencil inscription inside front cover: 25. |
| Local note | Descriptive note pasted onto first page. |
| Local note | Page 167 misprinted as 161 (corrected above, in pencil); 258 as 285; 276 as 266. |
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| Location | electronic resource |
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