1892 Rare Victorian Book - DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens. Illustrated.
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Author : Charles Dickens.
Title : The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield the Younger. A Reprint of the First Edition, with the Illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens the Younger.
Publisher : London : Macmillan and Co., 1892.
Language : Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 6 ".
Pages : xxv-819 pages + publisher's catalog.
Binding : Attractive and very good half leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing or staining).
Illustrations : Profusely illustrated. Including also a facsimile of the wrapper and title page to the original edition of 1850.
The book : Very nice edition of David Copperfield -- the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends and enemies he meets along his way. It is his journey of change and growth from infancy to maturity, as people enter and leave his life and he passes through the stages of his development.
The author : Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.