Research Catalog

Title

The personal history of David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Publication

London : Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, [1849]-1850

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Details

Additional Authors

• Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.
• Green, W. T., active 1837-1872.
• Draper Collection.

Description

20 pts. in 19 (xiv, [1], 624 p., [40] leaves of plates) : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative 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

Genre/Form

• Drawings.
• Graphite drawings.
• Ink drawings.
• Watercolors.

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.

Indexed In (note)

• Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens
• Podeschi, J.B. Dickens
• Eckel, J.C. First editions of Dickens
• Hatton & Cleaver. Periodical works of Dickens
• Johannsen, A. Phiz: illustrations from the novels of Dickens

Call Number

8-*KL (Dickens, C. David Copperfield. London)

LCCN

19001692

OCLC

• 01903280
• NYPGR1903280-B

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

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)

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

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.

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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., active 1837-1872.

Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Newcomes.

Kyd, 1856 or 7-1937.

Draper Collection.

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