BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), binders. DICKENS, CHARLES. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. 8vo, 214 x 140 x 57mm. (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 2 5/16in.), A COSWAY STYLE BINDING, navy blue levant morocco, each cover with single gilt fillet around an inner border with large ornamental corner ornaments, the upper cover set with AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF DICKENS AS A YOUNG MAN (82 x 63mm., 3 3/16 x 2 1/2in.) in a frame of ornamental gilt tooling; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, an ornamental panel in the rest; board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk doublures and free endpages, g.e., stamp-signed by the binders on upper turn-in, a washed copy, half-title in facsimile. FIRST EDITION, 40 etched plates, including etched title, by Hablot K. Browne.

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BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), binders. DICKENS, CHARLES. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. 8vo, 214 x 140 x 57mm. (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 2 5/16in.), A COSWAY STYLE BINDING, navy blue levant morocco, each cover with single gilt fillet around an inner border with large ornamental corner ornaments, the upper cover set with AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF DICKENS AS A YOUNG MAN (82 x 63mm., 3 3/16 x 2 1/2in.) in a frame of ornamental gilt tooling; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, an ornamental panel in the rest; board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk doublures and free endpages, g.e., stamp-signed by the binders on upper turn-in, a washed copy, half-title in facsimile. FIRST EDITION, 40 etched plates, including etched title, by Hablot K. Browne.