Charles Dickens's ''David Copperfield'' Supplement 1, 1981-1998 : An Annotated Bibliography

Annotated bibliographies are a mix of reference work, book biography and generalogy, and documentation of cultural reception and appropriation. Now that electronic searches can be done speedily, what does the slower print medium of a volume such as this offer? It is comprehensive and, through annotation, descriptive, with commentary based on the editors' consideration of the entire source in most cases. It is...literally a life of David Copperfield, unfinished and in need of periodic supplement...