MILTON, JOHN. The History of Britain, That part especially now call'd England. From the first Traditional Beginning, continu'd to the Norman Conquest. London: Printed by J.M. for James Allestry, 1670. Small 4to, contemporary calf, ruled in blind, rebacked with most of original spine laid down, rear cover worn in a few spots, a few leaves with torn corners (not touching text), some light staining at fore-margins in last third of the text. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the Allestry imprint, engraved frontispiece portrait of Milton by Faithorne, with the errata leaf at end. Pforzheimer 710; Grolier, Wither to Prior, II, 196; Wing M2119. Allestry died within months after the book was issued; the following year his successor, Spencer Hickman, substituted a cancel title with his own name in the imprint.