A Journal Of The Plague Year Being Observations Or Memorials Of The Most Remarkable Occurrences As

by Daniel Defoe

$45,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: E. Nutt, J. Roberts, A. Dodd, & J. Graves, 1722. First edition, first printing of Daniel Defoe's fictional account of the Great Plague of 1665. iv , 287 pp. three pages misnumbered without interruption to text: 281 for 218, 290 for 270, and 291 for 271 . Octavo, full calf, laced in boards. Contemporary Cambridge binding skillfully rebacked circa 19th century; dark topstain, all edges speckled red, red morocco

• Printing: first
• Binding: Leather

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