The Black Death by Philip Ziegler. London: The Folio Society, [1997]. Third printing thus. 240 × 160 × 26 mm. Pp. [i–vii] viii–xiii [xiv], 1–280 [281–282]: [12] pages of colour plates. Type: Minion with Athenaeum for display. Printed by the Saint Edmundsbury Press. Bound by Hunter and Foulis in full black cloth with a design in red and gold by Francis Mosley; red-grey endleaves with a map by Denys Baker. Black slip case. The plates reproduce medieval manuscripts and paintings. The fiddling skeleton from Mosley’s binding design is repeated on the title-page. This was the first in a series of historical ‘shockers’, dealing with death, disease and general foulness in the past.

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