A Journal of the Plague Year: Illustrated recount of the Great Plague of London (1665)

Relevant piece of history! Never ignor the past, it has a lot to teach us today.

This book has evidently been scanned in by a machine without anyone having set smart quotation marks because every opening quotation mark is the wrong way round, which I personally found very annoying, along with the odd rogue apostrophe that must have been a mark on the pages when it was scanned in.This is a shame because otherwise the book is nicely presented with what appear to be copies of the original illustrations, plus the text is a decent size. The story flows well and should be of morbid interest for these times, given Defoe supposedly based it on the memoirs of an uncle who stayed in London during the 1665 plague outbreak.