charles dickens david copperfield first edition

Half leather binding with ornamentally decorated spine, 5 frets and title printed in gold on spine, marbled paper covered boards with leather corners. Alle Textseiten sauber, einige Tafeln im Randbereich gebräunt, 8°. Badeley 1938, Marmorpapiervorsätze, Lesebändchen, miteingebundener Original-Umschlag der Heftausgabe, Eingangskupfer und illustriertes Titelblatt, zweites einfaches Titelblatt mit Druckerhinweis auf Rückseite, XIV, (2 S.) Errata page, 624 Seiten mit 40 Tafeln inklusive Frontispiece und Eingangstafel, weiterer Druckerhinweis 'London: Bradbury and Evans, printers Whitefriars.' auf letztem Druckblatt.

Halbledereinband mit ornamentalverziertem Rücken, 5 Bünden und Titel in Golddruck auf Rücken, marmorpapierbezogene Deckel mit Lederecken. Slight rubbing, binding square and firm, light dampstaining at head throughout, contents otherwise bright. Etched frontispiece, 38 plates, and vignette title page. Contemporary red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, richly gilt in compartments, sides with gilt triple fillet border enclosing an ecclesiastical arch roll, gilt turn-ins, yellow endpapers, gilt edges. It has been adapted into films multiple times, including most recently in 2019, starring Dev Patel as the hero.

Undoubtedly it became for very many readers, then as now, his best-loved novel, an opinion in which Dickens himself coincided, calling it in a preface to the book of 1867 his 'favourite child'' (ODNB). 'Copperfield received considerable critical acclaim and before long was widely held to be his greatest work. The handsome binding is possibly by Dickens's favourite binder, James Hayday - though unsigned, it is stylistically similar to the bindings on copies of Dombey and Son and Martin Chuzzlewit in the John Forster collection in the Victoria and Albert, both signed by Hayday. First edition in book form, following serial issue in monthly parts.

Charles dickens david copperfield first edition