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Author Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Uniform Title David Copperfield
Title The personal history of David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.
Imprint London : Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, [1849]-1850 ([London] : Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars)
Location Call No. Status Help Message
 Schwarzman Building (42nd Street & 5th Avenue) - Arents Collection  Arents BIP (Dickens, C. David 1849) 00-95 c.2  AVAILABLE PERMIT NEEDED
 Schwarzman Building (42nd Street & 5th Avenue) - Arents Collection  Arents BIP (Dickens, C. David 1849) 00-94    AVAILABLE PERMIT NEEDED
 Schwarzman Building (42nd Street & 5th Avenue) - Rare Book Collection  8-*KL (Dickens, C. David Copperfield. London)    AVAILABLE PERMIT NEEDED
 Schwarzman Building (42nd Street & 5th Avenue) - Rare Book Collection  *KL (Dickens, C. David Copperfield. London)    AVAILABLE PERMIT NEEDED

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Description 20 pts. in 19 (xiv, [1], 624 p., [40] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Indexed In: Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, B220
Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A121
Eckel, J.C. First editions of Dickens, p. 75-76
Hatton & Cleaver. Periodical works of Dickens, p. [251]-272
Johannsen, A. Phiz: illustrations from the novels of Dickens, p. 309-396
Note Each part (no.) in the original illustrated bluish green paper covers, as issued monthly, May 1849-Nov. 1850 (the last a double no.). Title page and other preliminaries in pt. 19/20. General advertisements on p. [2-4] of covers of parts. "Copperfield advertiser" and other publisher's and general advertisements inserted in each part; for detailed description, cf. Hatton & Cleaver. Each part contains 2 plates, except 4 in pt. 19/20.
Title on covers of parts: The personal history, adventures, experience, & observation of David Copperfield, the younger, of Blunderstone Rookery, which he never meant to be published on any account.
Added engraved t.p., dated 1850, with title: David Copperfield.
Distributor statement (on covers of parts): Agents: J. Menzies, Edinburgh; T. Murray, Glasgow; J. M'Glashan, Dublin.
Illustrations: 40 prints (incl. frontispiece and added t.p.) : etching ; full-page. Several signed "Phiz." All were etched in duplicate. -- 1 print (on covers of parts) : wood engraving ; full-page. Signed: Phiz; Green, sc.
Local Note Arents copies lack several advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver. Arents copy 1 lacks [4] p. at end of pt. 1; "Lett's diaries for 1850" (sheet with 8 specimens), pt. 8; slip announcing "New weekly miscellany," pt. 9; slip announcing "Household words," pt. 11 (copy inserted in pt. 12); slip advertising "Household words," etc., pt. 14; [4] p. at end of pt. 15; slip advertising "Punch's holidays," pt. 16; [2] p. at end of pt. 17; slip announcing "The writings of Douglas Jerrold," pt. 19/20. Arents copy 2 lacks p. [3-4] of [4] p. at end of pt. 1; p. 9-12 at end of pt. 2; slip announcing "New weekly miscellany," pt. 9; 8 p. at end of pt. 10; slip announcing "Household words," pt. 11; slip advertising "Household words," etc., pt. 14; [4] p. at end of pt. 15; slip advertising "Household words," pt. 16; [2] p. at end of pt. 17. Both copies have the 4-page version of the "Working man's library" advertisements, pt. 12.
According to points given by Johannsen, Arents copies contain the following plates: Arents copy 1: 1-4A, 5-6B, 7-10A, 11B, 12-15A, 16-17B, 18-19A, 20B, 21-22A, 23-24B, 25-26A, 27B, 28-29A, 30-38B, 39-40A. Arents copy 2: 1-6B, 7-10A, 11B, 12A, 13B, 14-15A, 16B, 17-19A, 20B, 21-22A, 23-24B, 25-26A, 27B, 28A, 29-32B, 33-36A, 37-38B, 39-40A.
Errata (6 lines): p. [xv].
Copy in *KL: Incomplete: Nos. 1-10 wanting. Includes no. 11 (Mar. 1850)-no. 19/20 (Nov. 1850), comprising p. 321-624, with t.p. and other preliminaries and 20 plates, including frontispiece and engraved t.p. In original green paper covers; in red levant morocco slipcase.
Copy in *KL: Draper Collection.
Copy in 8-*KL: Extra-illustrated with 18 original watercolor character sketches by Kyd.
Copy in 8-*KL: Bound in 2 v., with original covers and advertisements bound in at end of each vol. Harkness Bequest; with armorial bookplate of Mary Stillman Harkness.
Provenance (Arents copy 1): H. Young (autographs and initials on front covers of pts. 2-17).
Provenance (Arents copy 2): Richard Doyle. With 49 pencil and pen drawings by Doyle in 5 nos. of the "Copperfield advertiser": no. 1, p. 29 (6); no. 2, p. 9 (8); no. 6, p. 3 (4) and p. 5 (3); no. 8, p. 5 (7) and p. 7 (4); no. 10, p. 1 (12) and p. 11 (5). Preparatory sketches for illustrations to The Newcomes by W.M. Thackeray; many initialed or signed with Doyle's sparrow device.
Genre/Form Drawings.
Graphite drawings.
Ink drawings.
Watercolors.
Local Subject Young, H. -- Provenance.
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883 -- Provenance.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Newcomes -- Illustrations.
Added Author Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.
Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872.
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Newcomes.
Kyd, 1856 or 7-1937.
Draper Collection.
Added Title Personal history, adventures, experience, & observation of David Copperfield, the younger, of Blunderstone Rookery, which he never meant to be published on any account
Personal history, adventures, experience, and observation of David Copperfield, the younger, of Blunderstone Rookery, which he never meant to be published on any account
LCCN 19001692
Call No. 8-*KL (Dickens, C. David Copperfield. London)
Research Call Number 8-*KL (Dickens, C. David Copperfield. London)
*KL (Dickens, C. David Copperfield. London) Library has: Pts. 11-19/20
Arents BIP (Dickens, C. David 1849) 00-94
Arents BIP (Dickens, C. David 1849) 00-95