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Charles Dickens

David Copperfield (First Edition, First Issue)

Bradbury & Evans

1850

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First edition, first issue of Charles Dickens' The Personal History of David Copperfield.

  • Charles Dickens (English).
  • London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.
  • 624 pages.
  • Octavo.
  • With the following first issue points present: 1850 engraved into vignette title-page; chapter XXVII listed on page 283 but appearing on page 282; uncorrected "cha pter" on page 19; "viii" in preface with last "i" not aligned; uncorrected "corroboration" on page 387; "recal" on pages 16 and 225; lacking "screwed" for "screamed" on page 132.
  • Bound in half green leather with marbled paper boards, spine is paneled with gilt tooling and lettering and red spine label, top edge of text dyed black.

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Text block has mild to moderate age toning and previous owner's name on front endpaper.

Interior clean, with mild foxing to plates and light waviness to text block.

Feature(s)

First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Novels, English literature and history, Literature

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