The Personal History of David Copperfield
$1,009 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
London: Bradbury Evans. 1850. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Half-bound in leather with marbled boards. Tape reinforcement to front and rear hinge. Bookplate to front free endpaper. 38 plates by H.K. Browne (Phiz). These are in excellent conditon. Leather corners are rubbed and there is cracking to leather spine and rubbing to its edges, rubbing to edges of rear board. Light scratching to the marbled boards and some light marking to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiv, 624 pages. Apppears to be a a first printing with issue points including screamed - later corrected to screwed page 132 line 20; the etched title page dated 1850; chapter XXVII begins on page 282 rather than page 283 as listed in the table of contents; p.16 line 1 and p. 225 line 22 both read recal rather than recall ; p.19 line 39 reads cha pter ; ut ; p.387 line 45 reads coroboration rather than corroboration ; and p.472 line 37 has no closing of the quotation marks, very slight misalignment of final i on ppviii. There are 4 pages of contents and 6 line errata. It does not have the 8pp of publisher s advertisements (generally missing). . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback.
- Publisher: Bradbury & Evans
- Year: 1850
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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