Books and Manuscripts

Milton, John
The History of Britain, That part especially now called England. From the first Traditional Beginning, Continued to the Norman Conquest…
London: Printed by J.M. for Spencer Hickman, 1671. First edition (Shawcross's second issue and Fletcher's 10th overall state). 8vo. (ii), 308, (56) pp. Illustrated with a supplied engraved frontispiece portrait by D. Loggan. Full contemporary brown calf, stamped in blind, discreetly rebacked, tips restored, orange morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities rubbed and lightly worn; all edges trimmed; soiling in bottom edge of several leaves, other scattered light soiling to text. Shawcross 307; Fletcher, The Editions of Milton's History of Britain, p. 412 ; Grolier, Wither to Prior 609

A handsome first edition of Milton's History of Britain, tracing Britain's history from antiquity to Harold II.