Shelfmark
Icc2.3.05(01-19)
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Icc2.5.18(01-19)
Author
Uniform title
[David Copperfield]
Title
The personal history of David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H. K. Browne.
Varying form of title
Cover title: The personal history, adventures, experiences, & observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to be published on any account)
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1850.
Physical description
20 v. in 19 (xiv, [2], 624 p.), [40] leaves of plates ; ill. ; 23 cm.
Note
In original 20 numbers published in 19 serial parts, with the preliminaries (including title-page) bound in after text of final part.
Note
With additional engraved title-page.
Note
Original printed green/blue paper wrappers.
Citation/references note
Hatton and Cleaver, p. 251
Provenance
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] Bookplate of Carrie Estelle Doheny.
Provenance
[Icc2.5.18(01-19)] Bookplate of C. J. M. Adie.
Provenance
[Icc2.5.18(01-19)] Some wrappers with ms. names on the front, including James Bennetts and John F. Halford.
Binding
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] Housed in 20th century green cloth box with gilt lettering.
Binding
[Icc2.5.18(01-19)] Late 19th/early 20th century green morocco half-binding with marbled paper boards ; original paper wrappers bound after text ; bound by Stoakley (binder's stamp).
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] Part 18 has loose four page advertisement for 'Bagster's new blank-page bible' from a different publication.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] All parts have all the issued advertisements.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] Part 8 has first issue misprint on p. 3 of the "Copperfield advertiser" of 'lile' for 'life' ; part 8 includes complete Lett's Diaries folding advertisement with with six specimen pieces.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] Part 1 has ms. booksellers' codes in pencil and ink.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] Part 12 has second variant of the "The working man's friend" advertisement being the four page version as opposed to the eight page version.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] Two loose typed bookseller's descriptions with a photograph of this set of parts.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.05(01-19)] Part 18 has second variant of the Waterlow & Sons advertisement being the two page version, but on yellow rather than the salmon paper recorded in Hatton and Cleaver.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.18(01-19)] All parts appear to be first issue.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.18(01-19)] All parts lacking advertisements.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.18(01-19)] Plate 24 missing.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.18(01-19)] Back wrapper of part 19-20 bound in after front wrapper of part 1 ; back wrapper of part 11 bound after front wrapper of part 12 ; back wrapper bound in at the back is from an original part of "Domby and Son".
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Doheny, Estelle, 1875 - 1958 former owner.
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--name
Halford, John F. former owner.
Added entry--name
Bennetts, James former owner.
Added entry--name
Bradbury & Evans publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B27935