DICKENS, Charles.

£3,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Personal History of David Copperfield. First edition in book form, attractively bound. Following serialization from May 1849 to November 1850, the work was published in book form that November.Dickens's first novel written in the first person, "Copperfield received considerable critical acclaim and before long was widely held to be his greatest work. Undoubtedly it became for very many readers, then as now, his best-loved novel, an opinion in which Dickens himself coincided, calling it in a preface to the book of 1867 his 'favourite child'" (ODNB).This copy has the first state engraved title page dated 1850, and the second state reading "screwed" rather than "screamed" (p. 132).

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