The Personal History of David Copperfield BY CHARLES DICKENS, ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN AUSTEN. COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Bound in Genuine Leather. The Easton Press, NORWALK CONNECTICUT. 821 PAGES. David Copperfield first appeared in monthly parts from May , 1849, to November, 1850; the complete volume was published in Novemver, 1850, by Bradbury & Evans, London. In 1861 the novel was included in the Uniform Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens, issued by T.B Perterson & Brothers, Philadelphia; it was also included in the collected editions brought out by Chapman & Hall, London: the Household Edition (1871-79), the Gadshill Edition (1897-1908), and the Authentic Edition (1901-6). Later important editons of his complete writings include "The Nonesuch Dickens" (Nonesuch Press, London, 1937-38) and the "Oxford Illustrated Dickens" (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1947-58). The edition containing John T. Winterich's introduction and John Austen's illustrations was first published by The George Macy Companies, Inc., New York (copyright 1937, ©1965). This Collector's Edition is published by advance reservation exclusively for subscribers to the Easton Press collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. The frontispiece portrait was specially commissioned and, like the other special contents, is copyright ©1979 by The Easton Press. Printed in the United States of America. Dickens was thirty-seven when he wrote David Copperfield. As it turned out, the story is really that of Charles Dickens himself-considerably disguised, as are many of the other characters in this most autobiographical of his novels.