Oxford University Press used the Charles Dickens Edition as the authoritative version of Dickens on which to base their reprint of Dickens's works.
ix) said "many of Dickens's cloth-bound novels are hardly ever found in fine condition.Cloth cases provided for his usually ample volumes were poor quality, so that the collector may find Martin Chuzzlewit and David Copperfield as difficult, and Pickwick more difficult, to secure in fine original cloth than in the parts." In the 1860's Dickens revised and edited his books, releasing the so-called "Charles Dickens Edition", or "Original Edition" of which this is part. John Carter (Taste & Technique in Book Collecting quoted in Smith, p. The spine is lightly faded, corners are bumped, boards are lightly scuffed, with some light foxing. Boards are chipped top and bottom of spine there is a small tear at the fold about 1/3 up from the bottom. This book was composed from the original edition with some errors corrected, and then released by Chapman and Hall at a later date, along with other matching volumes in a set called the "Original Edition" (now called the "Charles Dickens Edition"). The book contains Dickens's errata sheet. 624 and the imprint on iv the errors on pp. 76-77), corrected as follows: title page lists Chapman and Hall (while all other references are to Bradbury & Evans in the book, including the imprint at the foot of p. This book is in an early revision state with most of the internal flaws and points listed by Smith (pp. Original uncolored endpapers, uniform with pages. (short swollen rule), "Dickens" (all caps), "Illustrated, Original Edition" appear on the spine in gilt. Published in the 1860's as part of the "Charles Dickens Edition" or "Original Edition" set, this is a printing of David Copperfield from the original plates (1850) in its original brown sandcloth (also called "diapercloth") binding, with a blindstamped rule around the edges.
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