Collation: A-3Q⁴, paged. Engraved portrait signed Wil. Hole on verso of printed title. Engraved titlepage (unsigned) ‘Poems by Michael Drayton Esquyer. Collected into one Volume. With sondry Peeces inserted neuer before Imprinted London printed for Iohn Smethwick.’ Epistle dedicatory to Sir Walter Aston, signed. Address to the reader. Commendatory verses signed: Thomas Greene, Iohn Beaumont, E. Heyward, I. Selden. ‘The Barons’ Wars’ with head-title. ‘England’s Heroical Epistles’, ‘Idea’, ‘Odes’, ‘Legends’, ‘The Owle’, and ‘Pastorals’ have each a separate titlepage with imprint ‘London, Printed for Iohn Smethwicke. 1619.’ There are apparently no less than five collections entitled ‘Poems’ previous to the present, the earliest being that of 1605, all of which are substantially the same, while the present one is enlarged by the addition of the poems which originally appeared in the ‘Poemes Lyrick and pastorall’ of about 1606. Some copies of the present edition (BM, G. 11573) differ from the above in reading in the imprint to the general titlepage ‘Fleetstreete. 1620.’. The separate titlepages however are dated 1619. BM 498. Poly-olbion. or A Chorographicall Description of Traicts, 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. With a Table added, for direction to those occurrences of Story and Antiquitie, whereunto the Course of the Volume easily leades not. Esq. [_sic_] _London. Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie._ 1613. F^o. (11⅜ × 7⅛). E. 5.