DICKENS, Charles
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
London: The Folio Society, 2004
Illustrated by BROWNE, Hablot Knight, or 'Phiz'
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Charles Dickens, The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to be published on any account). London: The Folio Society, 2004. First printing thus. With the original illustrations by “Phiz” [Hablot K. Browne], introduction by Kathryn Hughes. 262 × 169 × 56 mm. Pp. [i–iv] v–xxi [xxii–xxiv], 1–871 [872–874]: [39] leaves of ‘plates’. Type: Bulmer with Verdi for display. Typeset by R. and R. Clark for the Nonesuch Press in 1937 (the preliminaries by Folio), printed by the Saint Edmundsbury Press. Bound by Real Lachenmaier in series binding.
The third volume in the Folio Society series reproducing in facsimile the Nonesuch Press edition, designed by Francis Meynell and published in 1937 and 1938 under the editorial direction of Walter Dexter, Thomas Hatton, Hugh Walpole and Arthur Waugh. In the original Nonesuch edition, the illustrations were reprinted from the same etched plates and wood-engraved blocks used for the first, or early, editions of the novelist’s works. The edition was set in a newly designed type, ‘based upon the vivid but wholly unaffected letter-design originally cut by William Martin for use by that eminent printer William Bulmer shortly before 1790’ (quote from the 1937 prospectus for the edition), which was later released by the Monotype Corporation as ‘Bulmer’. The original cursive shoulder-notes were removed from the present reprint, and the series was issued in a uniform binding with gilt top edges and a dark red silk marker in each volume. Each was also expanded with a new introduction, typeset to harmonise with the original Nonesuch typography. Regrettably, the Verdi type (often mistaken for Figgins Shaded) used for display in both the original and Folio settings has not always reproduced well by offset lithography.
Near-fine copy with pages clean, bright and tightly bound. In like slipcase with just a small ding to one panel, as pictured, and a little light shelf-wear.
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