First edition published in 1978. Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-425) and index.
Contents:
The professional author -- Sketches by Boz and Macrone -- Pickwick Papers and the development of serial fiction -- Dickens and the Burlington Street Brigand -- 'The Best of Booksellers Past, Present, or to Come' -- Master Humphrey's Clock: 'wind, wind, wind' -- Trouble in Eden: American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit -- The break -- With Bradbury and Evans -- Dombey and Son, 'the great success' -- David Copperfield and the cheap edition -- Bleak House and the literary croesus -- Working the copywrights -- Return to Chapman and Hall -- 'The end' -- The audience widens -- Appendices. Sales and profits of Dickens works, 1846-70 -- The printing history of Dickens monthly serials, 1846-70 -- Income from Dicken's works for Dickens, Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall, 1846-70 -- Income from Household Works and All the Year Round.
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