THE PERSONAL HISTORY

OF

DAVID COPPERFIELD.

by

Charles Dickens 

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY 

Hablot Knight Browne

[“Phiz”]

LONDON

Bradbury & Evans

1850

First Edition

Book Specification 

Condition / Description 

(please see foot of listing for rating key) 

VERY GOOD : a c20th rebind with cloth spine and paper lined boards, black lettering on spine, lightly rubbed, hinges strong, binding firm, replacement endpapers, first leaf is frontispiece, text block slightly trimmed, the top corner of the title page [blank margin only] has been chipped & repaired, the usual foxing & staining to plates, text pages clean & bright, all 40 plates as called for, collated, complete, visible ‘stab’ marks at gutters - evidence of having been bound from the original monthly parts, many first edition points [see below]

David Copperfield

Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne [“Phiz”] with 40 engraved plates

This copy has the following First Edition points:

The engraved (vignette) title page shows date of 1850 at the bottom

4 page contents and 6 line errata

"screamed" for "screwed" error present on p. 132, line 20

single quote mark on p. 369, line 24

Chapter XXVII is at page 282 rather than 283 as listed in the Contents

Page 387, line 45: "coroboration" instead of "corroboration" 

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1850. Its full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). Like most of Dickens works, it originally appeared in serial form during the two preceding years. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of his novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield."

This is the First Edition, published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 1850.

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