![]() ![]() "Charles Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration," and Copperfield was their "most popular success" (Hodnett, 111-12). “Dickens and Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration,” and Copperfield was their “most popular success” (Hodnett, 111-12). it would be strange if it had been otherwise” (Eckel, 77). With a book which gave to the world such characters as Betsy Trotwood, Micawber, the Pegottys and Mr. “With many lovers of the author’s works David Copperfield ranks as the finest of his writings. Although he wasn't the inventor of this publishing style, Dickens made the serial publication of novels in monthly parts peculiarly his own. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In excellent condition, an unrestored example of Dickens’ classic work, with some of the backstrips with small chips. ![]() Octavo, original blue-green illustrated serial issue wrappers being twenty parts in nineteen with the majority of preliminary advertisements present, frontispiece, vignette title-page and forty engraved plates. London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.įirst edition in parts of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). ![]() The Personal History of David Copperfield.ĭICKENS, Charles. ![]()
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