- 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.