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I was given these books when I was 14 in 1970.

I have two sets of books for sale and the first diplayed here on this website page is FIRST EDITION 1850 THREE VOLUMES of DAVID COPPERFIELD by CHARLES DICKENS

I am looking to sell a rare three volume set of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. From my research I note that the first edition was printed in the UK in 1850. My edition pre-dates this and the two volumes were printed by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig in 1849.

Three volumes entitled David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

First page (with picture)

COLLECTION

OF

BRITISH AUTHORS

VOL.CLXXVI.

___________________

DAVID COPPERFIELD BY CHARLES DICKENS IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL.1

(Stamped COLLECTION OSTERRIETH)

Second Page

This page appears on each of the three volumes with VOL.I ; VOL.II; VOL.III)

Second Page with Picture

THE PERSONAL HISTORY, ADVENTURES, EXPEREINCE AND OBSERVATION

OF

DAVID COPPERFIELD

THE YOUNGER

OF BLUNDERSTONE ROOKERY.

(WHICH HE NEVER MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED ON ANY ACCOUNT.)

BY

CHARLES DICKENS

COPYRIGHT EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1849

CONTENTS

OF

TH FIRST VOLUME.

________

PAGE

CHAPTER I. I am born .   .       .         .         .          .      . . . . . . . .                1 to

CHAPTER II. I observe

CHAPTR III. I have a change

CHAPTER IV. I fall into disgrace

CHAPTER V. I am sent away from home

CHAPTER V. I enlarge my circle of acquaintance

CHAPTER VII. My "first half" at salem House

CHAPTER VIII. My holidays. Especially one happy afternoon

CHAPTR IX. I have a memorable birthday

CHAPTER X. I become neglected, and am provided for

CHAPTER XI. I begin life on my account, and don't like it

CHAPTER XII. Liking life on my own account no better, I form a great resolution

CHAPTR XIII. The sequel of my resolution

CHAPTER XIV. My aunt makes up her mind about me

CHAPTER XV. I make another beginning

CHAPTER XVI. I am a new boy in more senses than one

1850 (Volume I is dated 1849 and I am not sure if this is an error in the print run?)

CONTENTS

OF VOLUME II.

CJHAPTER I. Somebody turns up

CHAPTER II. A retrospect

CHAPTER III. I look about me, and make a discovery

CHAPTER IV. Steerforth's home

CHAPTER V. Little Em'ly

CHAPTER VI. Some old scenes,, and some new people

CHAPTER VII. I corroborate Mr. Dick, and choose a profession

CHAPTER VIII. My first dissipation

CHAPTER IX. Good and bad angels

CHAPTER X. I fall into captivity

CHAPTER XI. Tommy Traddles

CHAPTR XII. Mr.Micawber;s gauntlet

CHAPTER XIII. I visit Steerforth at his tome again

CHAPTR XIV. A loss

CHAPTER XV. A greater loss

CHAPTER XVI. The beginning of a long journey

CHAPTER XVII. Blissful

CHAPTER XVIII. My aunt astonishes me

CHAPTER XIX. Depression

CHAPTER XX. Enthusiasm

CHAPTER XXI. A little cold water

This last volume has a different preface pages and so I have recreated below for further detail.

COLLECTION

OF

BRITISH AUTHORS

VOL.CLXXVII.

______________________

DAVID COPPERFIELD BY CHARLES DICKENS

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL.III.

Next page

THE PERSONAL HISTORY, ADVENTURES, EXPEREINCE AND OBSERVATION

OF

DAVID COPPERFIELD

THE YOUNGER

OF BLUNDERSTONE ROOKERY.

(WHICH HE NEVER MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED ON ANY ACCOUNT.)

BY

CHARLES DICKENS

COPYRIGHT EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LEIPZIG

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1850

Next third page

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

TO

THE HON. MR. AND MRS. RICHARD WATSON,

OF

ROKINGHAM, NORTHPTONSHIRE.

Next page

P R E F A C E.

________

I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pelasure and regret - pleasure in the achievement of a long desigh: regret in the separation from many compnions - that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions.

Besides which, all that I could say of the Story, to any purpose, I have endeavoured to say in it.

It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know, how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell, unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still) that no one can ever lieve this Narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed in the writing.

Instead of looking back, therefore, I will look forward. I cannot close these Volumes more agreeably to myself, than with a hopeful glance towards the time when I shall again put forth my two green leaves* once a month, and with a faithful remembrance of the genial sun and showeres that have fallen on these leaves of David Copperfield, and made me happy.

London, October, 1850.

* This refers to the London publications which appear in green wrappers.

Next page

CONTENTS

OF VOLUME III.

CHAPTER I. A dissolution of paterneship

CHAPTER II. Wickfield and Heep

CHAPTER III. The wanderer

CHAPTER IV. Dora's aunt

CHAPTER V. Mischief

CHAPTER VI. Another retrospect

CHAPTER VII. Our housekeeping

CHAPTER VIII. Mr.Dick fulfils my aunt's prediction

CHAPTER IX. Intelligence

CHAPTER X. Martha

CHAPTER XI. Dmestic

CHAPTER XII. I am involved in mystery

CHAPTER XIII. Mr. Peggottys dream comes true

CHAPTER XIV. The beginning of a longer journey

CHAPTER XV. I assist at an explosion

CHAPTER XVI. Another retrospect

CHAPTER XVII. Mr. Micawber's transactions

CHAPTER XVIII. Tempest

CHAPTER XIX. The new wound, and the old

CHAPTER XX. The emigrants

CHAPTER XXI. Absence

CHAPTER XXII. Return

CHAPTER XXIII. Agnes

CHAPTER XXIV. I am shown two interesting penitents

CHAPTER XXV. A light shines my way

CHAPTER XXVI. A visitor

CHAPTER XXVII. A last retrospect

I also have a two volume set 'El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha printed in Madrid 1844.

Volume One

On the inside page is the signature 'William Atkinson 1853

Main next page

EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO

DON QUIJOTE

DE LA MANCHA.

Biblioteca Popular. U.I. 20

Page Two

EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO

DON QUIJOTE

DE LA MANCHA

COOMPURSTA POR MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAEDRA.

NEUVA EDICION

TOMO I.

MADRID: 1844

ESTAB. TIPOGRAFICO, GABINETE LITERARIO

calle del Sordo, num 11. calle del Principe, n.23.

Volume Two

On the inside page is the signature 'William Atkinson 1853

Main next page

EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO

DON QUIJOTE

DE LA MANCHA.

Biblioteca Popular. T.H. 60

Page Two

EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO

DON QUIJOTE

DE LA MANCHA

COOMPURSTA POR MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAEDRA.

NEUVA EDICION

TOMO II.

MADRID: 1844

ESTABLECIMIENTO TIPOGRAFICO,

DE D. FRANCISCO DE P. MELLADO.

Here is a professional layout taken bfrom Biblio

The Personal History of David Copperfield. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne.
by DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)
Condition: See description

Book Description
London: Chapman and Hall no date (c.1870), 1870. Thick medium octavo, pps. (xiv); 624. Illustrated with 39 engraved plates and engraved title. Publisher's blind-stamped olive green cloth with backstrip ruled in five compartments, lettered in gilt to the second and fourth panel, edges untrimmed. Internally clean, bookplate of Skirrow/Telford to pastedown, some offsetting to flyleaf, inner paper joints started. Cloth shows some acceptable edgewear, reading crease to backstrip, which has sunned to brown. An attractive nineteenth century copy in the same format as the first edition (the pagination and plates are the same, and the cloth is similar). Charles Dickens' highly autobiographical novel, whose story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself; the first Dickens novel to do so. Listed in 100 Books That Shaped World History [Raftery, 2002]. Also The Observer; All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003], BBC Big Read (200 Best Novels) [2003].
Book Details

Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books GB (GB)
Bookseller Inventory #: 40876
Title: The Personal History of David Copperfield. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne.
Author: DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Chapman and Hall no date (c.1870)
Date published: 1870
Keywords: Literature ENGLISH LITERATURE 1800-1900 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

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