Description
First edition of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Octavo, xiv, [errata], 624pp. Three quarter brown morocco, title in gilt on spine, raised bands with decorative gilt inlays, marbled boards. Top edge gilt with marbled endpapers. Includes the following first issue points: date of 1850 on engraved title page, includes half-title, six-line errata on page [xv], “recal” for “recall” on pp. 16, lacking advertisements. On pp. 132, “screwed” for “screamed.” (Smith I, 9) (Gimbel A122) Includes 38 illustrated plates and two leaf frontispiece. A beautiful copy.
