Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Milton, John (1608-1674)
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[ohn] M[acock] for John Martyn, 1677.



First issue of the second edition, octavo, initial blank present; nicely preserved in original tan calf (Cambridge?), with light speckling and small acorns tooled in blind, with paper spine label, joints cracked, boards holding, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.

Wing M-2121; Pforzheimer 711; Shawcross 323; ESTC R16523.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.