76/1335 Dickens, C. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London, Bradbury and Evans, 1850, 1st ed. in bookform, XIV,(2),624p., etched frontisp., title and 38 plates by H.K. BROWNE, orig. giltlettered and blindst. cl. w. mor. letterpiece.

- Frontisp. and etched title browned; plates sl. foxed as usual; upper hinge weak; lower hinge partly broken. Lower joint split(ting); spine-ends and mor. letterpiece chipped; spine sunned.

= Eckel p.77-78; Sadleir 686; Muir p.94-96: "(...) in 1849-1850 [appeared] another masterpiece of text and illustration in David Copperfield, perhaps most people's favourite in both spheres."; Harvey p.142-151. Most points indicating a first issue present: Our copy has the following points: on p.132 "screwed" instead of "screamed"; chapter XXVII on page 282 and not page 283 as listed on the contents page; on p.16, line 1 and p.225, line 22: ''recal'' instead of ''recall''; p.19, 12 lines from the bottom: ''cha pter ;ut''; on p.387, 6 lines from the bottom: ''coroboration'' instead of ''corroboration''; on p.472, 13 lines from the bottom there is no closing of the quotation marks; ''1850'' under the publishers' imprint on the engraved title-page, i.a. the date 1850 below the etched title. Rare in the original cloth binding.