N.D. Circa 1852; Charles Dickens; Early Copy; London, Chapman and Hall; Illustrated by H.K. Browne "Phiz"; Rebound Leather, B.M. Pickering Bindery; 14/624/1 Pages; w5.7"xh8.7"; Rare!

• Beautiful marble cover design with dark green leather binding/corners, gold pinstriped borders, with a fine gold floral binding, marble end pages/page edges, with a lovely frontispiece and vignette title page, 38 other fine full page plates, and a Wonderful Classic; Same Format as the First Edition, with a couple 1st Issue Points, but most are corrected, I would assume printed within a few years of the first!

• Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who 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 are widely read today.

• David Copperfield  is a novel by Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity. As such, it is typically categorized in the bildungsroman genre. It was published as a serial in 1849 and 1850 and then as a book in 1850. David Copperfield is also a partially autobiographical novel: "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention", with events following Dickens's own life. Of the books he wrote, it was his favorite. Called "the triumph of the art of Dickens", it marks a turning point in his work, separating the novels of youth and those of maturity.