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Dickens, Charles
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Dickens, Charles
- The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield The Younger of Blunderstone Rookery. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1849 [-November 1850]
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20 parts in 19, 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.; 222 x 140 mm, uncut). Additional vignette title page, frontispiece, and 38 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne, "Copperfield Advertiser" and all ads and slips present throughout; occasional light marginal spotting, some plates mildly browned, two leaves of ad in part 19/20 lacking (see below), but generally very clean. Original pictorial blue-green wrappers; a few small stains, some chipping to cover edges and spines, a few small tears, backstrip of last part split, an unsophisticated copy. In a black roan slip case; very rubbed, bottom of box split.
Provenance
Henry W. Poor (gold-stamped blue leather bookplate, his sale, Anderson Auction Gallery, 7 December 1908, lot 334)
Literature
Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 253-272; Sadlier 686
Condition
see cataloguing
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
First edition in original parts, with points: corrected title "Forster's Life of Goldsmith" in part 8, page 3 of the "Copperfield Advertiser;" bound before the scarce Letts advertisement in the rear of part 8 are five blank leaves of a banking journal dated January-February 1848; the advertisements in the back of part 12 show the "alternative" (2A) with 4 page inset and the "Exhibition of Industry" and the slip "Visit to the Exhibition;" the advertisements in the back of part 18 show the "alternative" 2-page Waterlow ad and "Eliza Cook's Journal;" the advertisement in the back of part 19/20 for "Cundall and Addey" is paginated 3-6 evidently lacking the first and last leaves.