DAVID COPPERFIELD BY CHARLES DICKENS 1850 FIRST EDITION, FINE LEATHER BINDING

DAVID COPPERFIELD BY CHARLES DICKENS 1850 FIRST EDITION, FINE LEATHER BINDING

£750.00

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[DICKENS, CHARLES]. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.

First edition bound from the original parts. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (220 x 130 x 55mm.). Pp xiv, [ii], 624. English text. Stunningly bound in later full tan calf with gilt. Spine with five raised bands and green morocco lettering-piece in second compartment. Marbled endpapers. 40 plates by H.K. Browne, including a frontispiece and engraved title page. Title page, dedication, preface, contents, list of plates, errata leaf followed by the text itself. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges perfectly intact. Covers beautifully preserved. Contents largely clean with varying degrees of foxing mostly to the plates. Title-page has a small inked previous owner name and doodle. An excellent and handsome copy.

Notes: First edition, bound from the original parts as issued from May 1849 to November 1850. In the preface to a later edition (1867), Dickens would call the novel his "favourite child", a sentiment shared by many readers: "with many lovers of the author's works 'David Copperfield' ranks as the finest of his writings" (Eckel, p. 77). It has been adapted into films multiple times. [Hatton and Cleaver p. 253; Kremers pp. 97-100; Smith I 9].