Description: This beautiful book is in NEAR MINT condition. It looks like new. The leather is glossy and gorgeous, and the golden gilding is sharp and shimmering. The pages' gilt remains saturated with gold. The paper is fresh and crisp.There was some sticker attached and removed on the bottom right corner of the front moire end leaf, as seen in picture #9 A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665, commonly called A Journal of the Plague Year, is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city. Presented as an eyewitness account of the events at the time, it was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665 when the Great Plague took place, and the book itself was published under the initials H. F. and is probably based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe, who, like 'H. F.', was a saddler who lived in the Whitechapel district of East London. Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific neighborhoods, streets, and even houses in which events took place. Additionally, it provides tables of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes received by the narrator. The book is often compared to the actual, contemporary accounts of the plague in the diary of Samuel Pepys. Defoe's account, which appears to include much research, is far more systematic and detailed than Pepys's first-person account.
Price: 39.95 USD
Location: Rochester, New York
End Time: 2024-12-05T05:06:20.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.13 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: Norwalk, Connecticut
Signed: No
Publisher: Franklin Library Folio Society like
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1978
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Domenico Gnoli
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Large Print, 1st Edition, Vintage, Leather, Limited Edition, Gold Gilt, Luxury Edition, Made in the USA, Smyth-sewn Binding, Achival Standards, Hubbed Spine, Embossed Covers, Satin Ribbon Bookmark, Moiré End Leaves, Fine Press
Author: Daniel Defoe
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Topic: Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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