Charles Dickens and his publishers

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.