Allott was editor of a famous miscellany of Elizabethan poetry, entitled England's Parnassus; or the choycest Flowers of our Modern Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons, Descriptions of Bewties, Personages, Castles, Pallaces, Mountaines, Groves, Seas, Springs, Rivers, &c.
In 1599, a thick duodecimo was published, entitled Wits Theater of the Little World, a prose "collection of the flowers of antiquities and histories".