Due Preparations for the Plague, As well for Soul as Body. Being some seasonable Thoughts upon the Visible Approach of the present dreadful Contagion in France; the properest Measures to prevent it, and the great Work of submitting to it by Defoe, Daniel - 1722

E. Matthews & J. Batley, 1722. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. A good and complete example of this exceptionally rare Defoe title. Much the scarcer of his two published works re the plague.The contents in very good condition with a few minor marks here and there, former owners' names and notes to the pastedowns and front free endpaper. small Inkstamps on front pastedown, title page and rear free endpapers. No other inscriptions. Full contemporary sprinkled calf binding a little rubbed and marked, spine cracked and relaid over new, lacking a spine label. Moore 447. 'both Due Preparations and A Journal of the Plague Year were intended partly as propaganda to support the administration of Sir Robert Walpole'. xi, 1-272pp, [3]. Approx. size 6" by 3.75".  Quantity Available: 1. Category: Medicine & Health; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27184. .