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The personal history of David Copperfield
- 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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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | Arents BIP (Dickens, C. David 1849) 00-95 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | Arents BIP (Dickens, C. David 1849) 00-94 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | 8-*KL (Dickens, C. David Copperfield. London) | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KL (Dickens, C. David Copperfield. London) | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- 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, B220Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A121Eckel, J.C. First editions of Dickens, p. 75-76Hatton & Cleaver. Periodical works of Dickens, p. [251]-272Johannsen, 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.
- Connect to:
- 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. 11-19/20Arents BIP (Dickens, C. David 1849) 00-94Arents BIP (Dickens, C. David 1849) 00-95