£1,800
Dickens (Charles) & Browne (Hablot Knight, illustrator), The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, of Blunderstone Rookery/(Which He never meant to be Published on any Account.), first edition in the original 19/20 monthly parts, London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional engraved title and 38 plates, prefixed and suffixed with illustrated advertisements, original publisher's printed pictorial blue-green paper wrappers (no. XVIII's chamfered and clipped; nos. XIX/XX creased with ripple, recto cover fragmentary; others respectable, soiled, slight corner creases, splits and chips to spines, but holding together well regardless), 8vo, [19]
Provenance: Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole (aka "The Squire"; 1792 – 1863), his ink MS ownership inscription to the upper-cover of each part (bar nos. V, X, XVIII, & XIX/XX; N.B. no. V has a harlequin contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: Newell Burnett Esq (a recorded advocate), a few numbers dated 49 or 50 in MS; by descent through the Chandos-Pole family and removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
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