![]() ![]() ![]() Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and blindstamps their sale, Sotheby’s, 13 March 2008, lot 3945). 18th century vellum-backed dutch gilt paper boards, title in ink on spine (a little wear at corners) custom box. The plague began in December 1664, picked up gradually during early 1665 and peaked in the summer. While the first-person narration and abundant historical detail result in a text that feels likeand masquerades asnonfiction, Defoe was only 5 years old at. The novel is written in the first-person and chronicles the spread of the bubonic plague in London in 1665. ![]() Woodcut ornaments and head- and tailpieces (a marginal little dustsoiling at ends, paper flaw to E4 affecting a few words). Markets were shut and there was a shortage of food. Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year was first published in 1722. F., the protagonist, lives in London throughout the plague, and he is torn between fleeing and staying, between pragmatic, even crass economic motives, and spiritual impulses, and, even more importantly, is obsessed with determining the reasons individuals get the plague” (ODNB). ![]() Jack, may be Defoe's most under-appreciated great novel. “ Journal of the Plague Year, published in the same year as Moll Flanders and Col. The Macclesfield copy of the first edition, an excellent copy. 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. ![]()
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