When first published in the magazine it had the title of The Personal History , Adventures , Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery ( which he never meant to publish on any account ) . David Copperfield or The Personal History , Adventures , Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery ( which he never meant to publish on any account ) is a novel by Charles Dickens , first published as a novel in 1850 .