May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
Poly-Olbion.

London: Printed for M. Lownes, I. Browne, A. Helme, & I Busbie, 1613.

First edition variant of second state; folio, engraved title present, lacking typographical title page; illustrated with full-length portrait of the Prince of Wales titled, 'Henricus Princeps," and eighteen double-page engraved maps; signature Dd signed correctly, maps numbered, four-leaf table present at the end of the volume; bottom blank margins of S2 & S5 extended at gutter and bottom margins, most likely supplied from another copy; engraved title and portrait of Henry by Hole; bound in contemporary sheepskin, worn with old repairs, now failing, textblock splitting in two; edges with browning throughout; 11 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.

STC 7227; Langland to Wither 84; ESTC S121632; cf. Pforzheimer 308.