With Copperfield this issue was probably exacerbated by its popularity: the serialisation was an instant hit with the public and so when the completed novel was available it was read heavily or rebound for posterity.
Like all of Dickens's octavo novels, the contents were simply too bulky for the flimsy binding. This is due in part to its shape and size. 1st Edition Charles Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood Chapman and Hall 1870 195.00 10.85 shipping or Best Offer SPONSORED Dickens First Edition 'Edwin Drood' 1870 159.00 7.05 shipping or Best Offer SPONSORED A TALE OF TWO CITIES by CHARLES DICKENS 1859 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 200. Sadleir listed it at the top of his list of comparative scarcities for Dickens in fine condition an we have found it consistently the most difficult of Dickens' major works to find in good unrepaired cloth. It now ranks as one of the great novels of the nineteenth century. First edition of the most perfect of all the Dickens novels (Virginia Woolf). An exceptionally well preserved copy.ĭavid Copperfield, described by Dickens as "my favourite child", marks a step change in the author's career, a transition from composer of popular, picaresque, comedies to great novelist. Internally, generally very fresh with minor, superficial repair to the hinges, pronounced foxing to the frontispiece and engraved title, but the remainder of the plates, for the most part, notably clean. 6 1035 A Collection of his more important Works in First, or First 8vo, Editions. A very good copy indeed with the spine slightly faded and dusty and a few trivial marks, but the cloth entirely without repair. Thirty nine full page steel engravings by H. Publisher's primary binding of sage green cloth stamped in blind with ruled border and central arabesque to covers and lettered in gilt on the spine. First state of vignette title page (dated).
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