8vo. Half-title; 40 etched plates (including engraved frontispiece and additional engraved vignette title) after Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). (Engraved title laid down and reinserted, a few occasional spots.) Contemporary half dark olive morocco, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in 2 (recased with fresh endpapers and endbands).

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.