DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). David Copperfield . London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). David Copperfield . London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850. 20 parts in 19, 8 o (221 x 142 mm). Engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates after Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"], parts 2-20 unopened. (Some plates lightly browned or with offsetting.) Original printed blue-green pictorial wrappers; red morocco pull-off cases, spines gilt-lettered. Provenance : acquired from E.P. Dutton & Company, who notes this copy "came direct from the owner who was the original subscriber to the Parts" (bookseller's description laid in). In remarkable condition: virtually as new FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, VIRTUALLY COMPLETE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS AND INSERTED SLIPS, wrappers of parts 10, 12 and 14 with 3 lines below heading (most likely mistranscribed by Hatton & Cleaver), with the "Copperfield Advertiser" in each part and all ads listed by Hatton & Cleaver, save for the "Punch" slip following the Advertiser in part 19/20 (stub present). Including the scarce "Lett's Diaries" ad in part 8 with six accompanying specimen leaves ("It is more often than not a missing quantity," Hatton & Cleaver); part 8 also with a variant of second front advertisement "New Weekly Illustrated Periodical for Ladies" on green paper containing 4 pages instead of 2, with announcements of a John Leech work and Punch's Almanack for 1850, unrecorded by Hatton & Cleaver; part 8 advertiser with "Life" (not "Lile") on page 3; part 12 with the 8 page issue of "Working Man's Library" ad, as called for in Hatton and Cleaver. David Copperfield was Dickens's eighth novel, written at the midpoint of Dickens's career and very much drawn from the author's own life; it is considered to be the novel that divides Dickens's early works from his later. The novel is scarce in parts. As Eckel notes, the printing was comparatively small, the parts were "much read and roughly handled," and "fine, clean and unrepaired copies" were "difficult to procure" even in 1932. Hatton & Cleaver, pp.253-272; Sadleir 686; Yale/Gimbel A121. (2)
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). David Copperfield . London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). David Copperfield . London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850. 20 parts in 19, 8 o (221 x 142 mm). Engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates after Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"], parts 2-20 unopened. (Some plates lightly browned or with offsetting.) Original printed blue-green pictorial wrappers; red morocco pull-off cases, spines gilt-lettered. Provenance : acquired from E.P. Dutton & Company, who notes this copy "came direct from the owner who was the original subscriber to the Parts" (bookseller's description laid in). In remarkable condition: virtually as new FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, VIRTUALLY COMPLETE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS AND INSERTED SLIPS, wrappers of parts 10, 12 and 14 with 3 lines below heading (most likely mistranscribed by Hatton & Cleaver), with the "Copperfield Advertiser" in each part and all ads listed by Hatton & Cleaver, save for the "Punch" slip following the Advertiser in part 19/20 (stub present). Including the scarce "Lett's Diaries" ad in part 8 with six accompanying specimen leaves ("It is more often than not a missing quantity," Hatton & Cleaver); part 8 also with a variant of second front advertisement "New Weekly Illustrated Periodical for Ladies" on green paper containing 4 pages instead of 2, with announcements of a John Leech work and Punch's Almanack for 1850, unrecorded by Hatton & Cleaver; part 8 advertiser with "Life" (not "Lile") on page 3; part 12 with the 8 page issue of "Working Man's Library" ad, as called for in Hatton and Cleaver. David Copperfield was Dickens's eighth novel, written at the midpoint of Dickens's career and very much drawn from the author's own life; it is considered to be the novel that divides Dickens's early works from his later. The novel is scarce in parts. As Eckel notes, the printing was comparatively small, the parts were "much read and roughly handled," and "fine, clean and unrepaired copies" were "difficult to procure" even in 1932. Hatton & Cleaver, pp.253-272; Sadleir 686; Yale/Gimbel A121. (2)
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