[Literature] Dickens, CharlesThe Personal History of David Copperfield. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1850. 8vo, xii (1) 624 pp., First edition bound from original parts with stab holes present with all first state. Faded blue half-calf with marbled boards, gilt spine decorations in panels with red leather label, spine gilt bright. Marbled edges and marbled endpapers, armoral bookplate of Francis L. Bland, small book sticker on top upper pastedown of 'E. F. Gouch / Bookseller / London'. Engraved frontis and engraved title with vignette. Illustrated with 40 plates including frontis by H. K. Browne 'Phiz'. Covers rubbed with minor edge wear. Occasional foxing, plates darkening at edges except for plate at page 3 which has some wear around edges and one crease in outer margin not affecting image.

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