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Lot 143
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 8, 2022
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.
8vo (213 x 131 mm). 40 etched plates (including engraved frontispiece and additional engraved vignette title) after Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). (Lacking half-title, some pale spotting and staining.) 20th-century half green calf gilt, marbled boards (spine and edges lightly sunned, some minor scuffing). Provenance: Emily Hedges, gifted to; George H. Hedges (gift inscription, 1886), gifted to; Dora E. Gifford (gift inscription, 1922).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM with illustrated title-page dated 1850. Published on 14 November 1850, David Copperfield is considered Dickens’s most autobiographical novel and includes one of the author's favorite characters: David Copperfield (preface to 1869 edition). Eckel, pp. 75-77; Gimbel A122; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 251-272; Smith I:9.
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
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