The Black Death- Philip Zeigler 1997 The Folio Society hardback

Condition: Good: Fellow Folio Collectors, I love you but I am only classifying this as good condition for a used book because I know we want the best! If you’re one of those folks that tweaks over a minor minor mark, no offense, I get it, please consider this is not a perfect copy. Yes, it has minimal wear but there is some wear. Please also note: No slipcase. Please see images for the condition of this book.Blurb: Philip Ziegler follows the course of the black plague as it swept from Asia into Italy and then into the rest of Europe.When first published in 1969, this study was described by the Guardian as …as exciting and readable an account as you could wish." This new edition of the major study on the subject is illustrated by over seventy contemporary black and white illustrations and eight pages of color.A series of natural disasters in the furthest reaches of the Orient during the third of the fourteenth century heralded what was, for the population of Europe, the most devastating