(Description) Figure 8 Thomas Dekker, title page of plague pamphlet, London ‘A Rod for Run-awayes’, 1625. Published by H. W. Haggard, Harper, New York, 1929. Photo: Wellcome Library, London. This woodcut captures the horror of plague. It shows people in London dying in large numbers: coffins are scattered about. The figures on the right of the image are trying to leave the city but are pursued by Death (the skeleton figure) and are forced back by those living in the surrounding healthy areas.