Poly-Olbion Maps Stanford University Public content

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, Poly-Olbion, M. Drayton, 1613, and Poly-Olbion
Description:
with intermixture of the most remarquable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarityes, pleasures, and commodities of the fame: digested in a poem by Michael Drayton, Esq. Epic topographical poem (divided into 30 songs) describing England and Wales, illustrated with maps. Relief shown pictorially. 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. Leather binding. Gold-leafed fore-edges. 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. First 4 and last 4 pages blank (included in page description). Engraved frontispiece (with preceding descriptive text), title pages (1 for each part), head and tail-pieces throughout. Dedications: To the high and mightie, Henrie, Prince of Wales (part 1); To the high and mightie, Charles Prince of Wales (part 2). Introductory text. Maps depict places anthropomorphically (e.g. cities appear as maidens crowned with cathedrals). Maps show topography, vegetation, waterways, shoals, ports. Illustrations of figures (including mythical), flora and fauna, ships, sea monsters. Numbers at tops of plates indicating adjacent page numbers. Map 1 has Poseidon. Map 4 has large band of musicians. Map 14 has farmers. Map 18 has pictorial representation of London. Map 25 has marshland with various birds.
Creator:
Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, Hole, William, -1624, Lownes, Matthew, -1625, Helme, John, -1616 or 1617, Busby, John, -1613, and Marriott, John, active 1616-1657
Publisher:
printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie, and printed by Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe,
Provider:
Stanford
Resource Class:
Maps
Date Issued:
1613
Spatial Coverage:
Europe, England, Wales, Irish Sea, and North Sea
Rights:
Images from the The Renaissance Exploration Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
Rights Holder:
This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
License:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Access Rights:
Public
Format:
JPEG2000
Georeferenced:
More details at:
https://purl.stanford.edu/sy295vm4054

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