1960 A Journal of the Plague Year

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase

In a smart, black cloth binding, with silver detailing to the front. With the original, red slipcase.

Reprint of the work by The Folio Society. The original edition was published in 1722, surrounding the events of The Great Plague of London in 1665.

Written by famed English writer, journalist and spy, Daniel Defoe, who was just five-years-old when the bubonic plague appeared in London. 'A Journal of the Plague Year' was published under the initials H. F., leading people to believe it was based on the journals of Defoe's uncles, Henry Foe, who lived in the Whitechapel district of East London during the plague.

The full description of the work entitled it as 'A Journal of The Plague Year, being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665'. This work is told from the perspective of an eye-witness account.

With striking wood engravings throughout, by artist Peter Pendrey.