The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Westminster Press, 1911.
A sumptuous Christmas Gift book. Large quarto. Red cloth, lettered in gilt and black, with gilt and black vignette. Pictorial endpapers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece with nineteen further tipped-in colour plates, under captioned tissue guards, plus a coloured illustration on title page, by Reynolds. A very good copy indeed with slight dustiness on the spine and page edges.
David Copperfield, described by Dickens as "my favourite child", marks a step change in the author's career, a transition from composer of popular, picaresque, comedies to great novelist. It now ranks as one of the great novels of the nineteenth century. This bright copy beautifully illustrates the tale.
Stock ID: 47096
