Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London - An edition in the series: "Everyman's Library" - London/New York, J. M. Dent & Co./E. P. Dutton & Co., 1928 - 1st edition - XV+303p. - Hardcover: Linen binding with decorative gold printed spine, with publisher's logo punched into the front cover - 11x17.60cm - Good copy: small ex-libris on the front endpaper, handwritten name on the next front endpaper, some signs of wear and use on the cover, spine cloth with UV discoloration. * Introduction : George Atherton Aitken (1860–1917) was a British civil servant, author, scholar, a literary biographer and a book collector. During his lifetime, Aitken became an expert on the Queen Anne period of English literature. * Daniel Defoe (circa 1660–1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, * A Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722, can be read both as novel and as nonfiction. It is an account of the Great Plague of London in 1665, which is undersigned by the initials "H. F.", suggesting the author's uncle Henry Foe as its primary source. It is a historical account of the events based on extensive research and written as if by an eyewitness, even though Defoe was only about five years old when it occurred. (Sources: Wikipedia) Verzending: goed verpakt/verzekerd.