DICKENS, CHARLES. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1849-November 1850. 20 parts in 19, 8vo, original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut, folding cloth chemise and morocco two-part pull-off case by Bradstreet's (broken), wrappers to parts 11 and 17 detached, small tears or chipping to extremities of most spines, back wrapper to part 19/20 tearing along spine, fraying to edges of wrappers of parts 1, 2 and 19/20, occasional slight soiling and/or creasing to extremities of other wrappers, fore-edge of leaf G1 (part 3) slightly frayed . FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, 40 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne ( most marginally foxed and with varying degrees of offset ), complete with all but one (the second back ad in part 9) of the inserted advertisements and slips called for by Hatton & Cleaver, part 8 with a variant of second front advertisement ("New Weekly Illustrated Periodical for Ladies...", on green paper) containing 4 pages instead of 2, with announcements of a John Leech work and Punch's Almanack for 1850 on p. 3, unrecorded by Hatton & Cleaver; the "Lett's Diaries" advertisement in part 8 with 6 specimen diary leaves (one folding). Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 253-272. Provenance : Cortlandt Field Bishop, morocco bookplate (sale, American Art Association, New York, part 1, 5-8 April 1938, lot 580, $700).
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1849-November 1850. 20 parts in 19, 8vo, original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut, folding cloth chemise and morocco two-part pull-off case by Bradstreet's (broken), wrappers to parts 11 and 17 detached, small tears or chipping to extremities of most spines, back wrapper to part 19/20 tearing along spine, fraying to edges of wrappers of parts 1, 2 and 19/20, occasional slight soiling and/or creasing to extremities of other wrappers, fore-edge of leaf G1 (part 3) slightly frayed . FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, 40 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne ( most marginally foxed and with varying degrees of offset ), complete with all but one (the second back ad in part 9) of the inserted advertisements and slips called for by Hatton & Cleaver, part 8 with a variant of second front advertisement ("New Weekly Illustrated Periodical for Ladies...", on green paper) containing 4 pages instead of 2, with announcements of a John Leech work and Punch's Almanack for 1850 on p. 3, unrecorded by Hatton & Cleaver; the "Lett's Diaries" advertisement in part 8 with 6 specimen diary leaves (one folding). Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 253-272. Provenance : Cortlandt Field Bishop, morocco bookplate (sale, American Art Association, New York, part 1, 5-8 April 1938, lot 580, $700).
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