Illustrated Journal of the Plague Year. 300th Anniversary Edition

Книга "Illustrated Journal of the Plague Year. 300th Anniversary Edition". A nice illustrated edition of this classic to commemorate the 300th anniversary of its publication. This book is very relavant in the face of the 2020 world-wide pandemic. Our version has all the original text and 18 illustrations and [link] the following edicts sound familiar in this day of coronavirus and instructions from the CDC? Well -- these are verbatim from orders posted in 1665 during the plague in London as contained in this journal. We should have heeded these rules a long time ago. "As soon as any man shall be found to be sick of the plague, he shall the same night be sequestered in the same house." "If any person shall have visited any man known to be infected of the plague, or entered willingly into any known infected house, being not allowed, the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for certain days by the examiner's direction." "All public assemblies at burials are to be foreborne dur...