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Gilt-embossed green cloth cover of the Household Edition of David Copperfield
Fred Barnard
1872
25.5 x 18.7 cm (10 by 7 ¾ inches)
Gilt-embossed green leatherette
Dickens's David Copperfield in the Household Edition
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
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Aside from gilt title David Copperfield this 1872 cover resembles all of the others in the Chapman & Hall/Harper & Bros. collaborative edition: Mr. Pickwick points left, and below him Seth Pecksniff's hair stands on end. To Pecksniff's left, the Yorkshire schoolmaster from Nicholas Nickleby, Wackford Squeers, seems to be checking a list; and opposite him, to the right edge of the cover, is Captain Cuttle (readily identifiable by his hook) from Dombey and Son, pointing towards the left. Needless to say, no character from David Copperfield, not even the writer's most brilliant comic creation, Wilkins Micawber, appears on the gilt-green embossed book cover.
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield, with 61 illustrations by Fred Barnard. Household Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1872. Vol. III.
The copy of the Household Edition from which this picture was scanned was the gift of George Gorniak, Editor of The Dickens Magazine, whose subject for the fifth series, beginning in January 2010, is this novel.
Created 4 August 2022 updated 16 August 2022