12mo. in sixes, 96 leaves.
Charles Este, 1696-1745, English scholar, the editor of this work, published the first edition in octavo in 1723, while still at Oxford;
some of his own verses are included in the volume. Este took holy orders, and eventually became Bishop of Waterford.
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15
Drayton’s Polyolbion
p fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 65, as above.
DRAYTON,
Michael.
Poly-Olbion By Michaell Drayton Esq:
London: printed for
M. Lownes,
I. Browne,
I. Helme,
I. Busbie [
1612].
First Edition. Folio. 162 leaves, engraved emblematic title, showing Great Britan [Britannia) [punct.
sic--
Ed.] in a triumphal arch, with full length figures of Brute, Caesar, Hengist and William the Conquerer,
Ingraued by W. Hole, preceded by a printed leaf of explanation, entitled
Vpon the Frontispice; full-length engraved portrait of the Prince of Wales holding a lance, by W. Hole, 18 double-page engraved maps, one before each of the eighteen songs.
Lowndes II, 671.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit[.] II, 424.
STC 7226.
Grolier Club,
Langland to Wither, no. 82.
Johnson,
Hole, no. 10 (reproduced).
The Library of Congress catalogues of 1839 and 1849 credit the Jefferson collection with the edition of 1612, in which there
was no printed title and of which the engraved title is quoted above. It seems strange that in assigning the date, 1612, these
two catalogues should quote at length the printed title which appeared first in the issue of 1613: Poly-Olbion. Or a Chorographicall
Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, With intermixture
of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commodities of the same: Digested in a Poem
By Michael Drayton, Esq. With a Table added, for direction to those occurrences of Story and Antiquitie, whereunto the Course
of the Volume easily leades not. London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helmes, and I. Busbie. 1613.”
It is probable that there is an error in the date, and that Jefferson had a later edition. An edition was printed in 1622
which included this first part, and the first edition of the second part. It is possible therefore that the date 1612 in the
Library of Congress catalogues was a misprint for 1622, but this cannot be proven. For a full account of these early editions,
see the Pforzheimer Catalogue II, 307.
Michael Drayton, 1563-1631, poet-laureate of England.
John Selden, 1584-1654, English jurist, wrote the notes on the first eighteen songs of Poly-Olbion at the request of Drayton. For other
works by Selden in this catalogue, see the Index.
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16
Linn’s Powers of genius.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 146, no. 40, as above.
LINN,
John Blair.
The Powers of Genius, a Poem, in Three Parts. By John Blair Linn, A.M. Co-Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in the City of Philadelphia.
Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged . . .
Published by
John Conrad & Co., no. 30, Chesnut-Street,
Philadelphia; and sold by
M. and J. Conrad & Co., no. 140 Market-Street,
Baltimore; and
Rapin, Conrad, & Co. Washington City.
H. Maxwell, Printer,
1802.
PS2246 .L7 P6
12mo. 96 leaves in sixes, 3 engraved plates by Alex. Lawson after Barralet.
Sabin 41337.
Wegelin 1037.
John Blair Linn, 1777-1804, clergyman and poet, first published
The Powers of Genius in 1801.
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