Poems: by Michael Drayton Esquire. Viz. The Barons Warres, Englands
Heroicall Epistles, Idea, Odes, The Legends Of Robert, Duke of
Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, And, Great Cromwell, The Owle,
Pastorals, Contayning Eglogues, With the Man in the Moone. _London,
Printed by W. Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his
Shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-streete vnder the Diall._
F^o. (10-1/4 × 6-3/8). H. 2.
Collation: A-3Q^4, 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.