Editing David Copperfield (section)

===Publication in monthly instalments===
"The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, of Blunderstone Rookery"<ref group="N">A [[Rookery]] is a colony of birds, usually [[rook (bird)|rook]]s. The term [[Rookery (slum)|"rookery"]] was also used as a name for dense [[slum]] housing in nineteenth-century cities, especially in [[London]].</ref> was published from 1 May 1849 to 1 November 1850 in 19 monthly one-shilling instalments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by [[Hablot Knight Browne|Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz")]], with a title cover simplified to ''The Personal History of David Copperfield''. The last instalment was a double-number.

On the other side of the Atlantic, [[Wiley (publisher)|John Wiley & Sons]] and [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|G. P. Putnam]] published a monthly edition, then a two-volume book version.

[[File:Houghton HEW 2.6.15 - Dickens, David Copperfield.jpg|thumb|Title page of the first edition by Bradbury & Evans, signed by Dickens]]
* I – May 1849 (chapters 1–3);
* II – June 1849 (chapters 4–6);
* III – July 1849 (chapters 7–9);
* IV – August 1849 (chapters 10–12);
* V – September 1849 (chapters 13–15);
* VI – October 1849 (chapters 16–18);
* VII – November 1849 (chapters 19–21);
* VIII – December 1849 (chapters 22–24);
* IX – January 1850 (chapters 25–27);
* X – February 1850 (chapters 28–31);
* XI – March 1850 (chapters 32–34);
* XII – April 1850 (chapters 35–37);
* XIII – May 1850 (chapters 38–40);
* XIV – June 1850 (chapters 41–43);
* XV – July 1850 (chapters 44–46);
* XVI – August 1850 (chapters 47–50);
* XVII – September 1850 (chapters 51–53);
* XVIII – October 1850 (chapters 54–57);
* XIX-XX – November 1850 (chapters 58–64).