Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Etched frontispiece, additional title, and 38 etched plates by H.K. Browne. Half-title, errata leaf. 8vo, bound in crimson morocco, French fillet borders, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, top edges and inner dentelles gilt, by Riviere, front hinge partially cracked; staining on endpapers from excessive oiling, monogram bookplate of Lowell Mason Palmer on front pastedown. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850

Additional Details

first edition, first printing in book form, bound from the original parts. Front wrapper of original parts issue number 12, with advertisement on verso, bound-in at end. Eckel, pp. 77-78.