[Literature] Dickens, Charles The Personal History of
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[Literature] Dickens, Charles The Personal History of David Copperfield
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition in book form, first issue. 8vo. xiv, (ii), 624 pp.; lacking half-title. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 38 engraved plates, by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Twentieth-century three-quarter brown calf over red cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, red morocco spine label; red speckled edges; old ownership signature on vignette title-page and title-page; scattered spotting to text; some foxing to edges of plates, as usual. Smith 1, 9; Eckel pp. 75-77
A handsome copy.
Acquired in 1997 by Rutgers for Walter K. Gordon, Provost of Rutgers University, and gifted to him on his retirement.
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[Literature] Dickens, Charles The Personal History of
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