$4,680
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) Poly-Olbion . London: for M. Lownes, I. Browne, I. Helme, I. Busbie, 1613. London: for John Mariott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622. Two folio volumes; volume one consists of the first edition, second issue, of the first part, books one through eighteen; volume two, a separate first edition with added material, containing books one through thirty; both with engraved maps by Hole, both bound in modern uniform calfskin and buckram boards. Volume one with the engraved allegorical frontispiece by Hole and explanation thereof, lacking the portrait of Prince Henry and the typographical title page, text contains fifteen of eighteen double-page engraved maps of the regions of Britain, one map stained, one torn with loss, dampstain on leaves 254 to 280. Volume two with portrait of Prince Henry, lacking the blank U3, with twenty of thirty double-page engraved maps, one torn with loss, one with a leaf detached.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18