Robert L. Patten writes primarily about Victorian literature, graphic arts, and print culture. He has co-edited volumes of essays on Dickens with John O. Jordan (Literature in the Marketplace, Cambridge, 1995) and John Bowen (Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies, Palgrave, 2006). His books on Dickens include Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford, 1978; 2nd edn. enlarged, 2017) and the Colby prize winning Charles Dickens and "Boz": The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author (Cambridge, 2012). His two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers, 1992, 1996) was named the best biography of the 1990s by the Guardian. And for the Ashgate Library of Essays on Charles Dickens, a 6-volume series edited by Catherine Waters, he edited the volume on Dickens and Victorian Print Culture (2012).

• I. THE RISE TO FAME 1: The Professional Author 2: Sketches by Boz and Macrone 3: Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction 4: Dickens and the Burlington Street Brigand 5: 'The Best of Booksellers Past, Present, or to Come' II. THE ANXIOUS FORTIES 6: Master Humphrey's Clock: 'wind, wind, wind' 7: Trouble in Eden: American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit 8: The Break III. FORTUNE WITH FAME 9: With Bradbury and Evans 10: Dombey and Son, 'the greatest success' 11: David Copperfield and the Cheap Edition 12: Bleak House and the Literary Croesus 13: Working the Copyrights IV. MAN OF THE WORLD 14: Return to Chapman and Hall 15: 'The End' 16: The Audience Widens APPENDICES Introduction A: Sales and Profits of Dickens's Works, 1846-70 B: The Printing History of Dickens's Monthly Serials, 1846-70 C: Income from Dickens's Works for Dickens, Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall, 1846-70 D: Income from Household Words and All the Year Round Select Bibliography

The welcome reissue of Charles Dickens and his Publishers is testimony to its enduring importance.

Robert L. Patten writes primarily about Victorian literature, graphic arts, and print culture. He has co-edited volumes of essays on Dickens with John O. Jordan (Literature in the Marketplace, Cambridge, 1995) and John Bowen (Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies, Palgrave, 2006). His books on Dickens include Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford, 1978; 2nd edn. enlarged, 2017) and the Colby prize winning Charles Dickens and "Boz": The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author (Cambridge, 2012). His two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers, 1992, 1996) was named the best biography of the 1990s by the Guardian. And for the Ashgate Library of Essays on Charles Dickens, a 6-volume series edited by Catherine Waters, he edited the volume on Dickens and Victorian Print Culture (2012).

• I. THE RISE TO FAME 1: The Professional Author 2: Sketches by Boz and Macrone 3: Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction 4: Dickens and the Burlington Street Brigand 5: 'The Best of Booksellers Past, Present, or to Come' II. THE ANXIOUS FORTIES 6: Master Humphrey's Clock: 'wind, wind, wind' 7: Trouble in Eden: American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit 8: The Break III. FORTUNE WITH FAME 9: With Bradbury and Evans 10: Dombey and Son, 'the greatest success' 11: David Copperfield and the Cheap Edition 12: Bleak House and the Literary Croesus 13: Working the Copyrights IV. MAN OF THE WORLD 14: Return to Chapman and Hall 15: 'The End' 16: The Audience Widens APPENDICES Introduction A: Sales and Profits of Dickens's Works, 1846-70 B: The Printing History of Dickens's Monthly Serials, 1846-70 C: Income from Dickens's Works for Dickens, Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall, 1846-70 D: Income from Household Words and All the Year Round Select Bibliography

The welcome reissue of Charles Dickens and his Publishers is testimony to its enduring importance.

Robert L. Patten writes primarily about Victorian literature, graphic arts, and print culture. He has co-edited volumes of essays on Dickens with John O. Jordan (Literature in the Marketplace, Cambridge, 1995) and John Bowen (Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies, Palgrave, 2006). His books on Dickens include Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Oxford, 1978; 2nd edn. enlarged, 2017) and the Colby prize winning Charles Dickens and "Boz": The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author (Cambridge, 2012). His two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (Rutgers, 1992, 1996) was named the best biography of the 1990s by the Guardian. And for the Ashgate Library of Essays on Charles Dickens, a 6-volume series edited by Catherine Waters, he edited the volume on Dickens and Victorian Print Culture (2012).

• I. THE RISE TO FAME 1: The Professional Author 2: Sketches by Boz and Macrone 3: Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction 4: Dickens and the Burlington Street Brigand 5: 'The Best of Booksellers Past, Present, or to Come' II. THE ANXIOUS FORTIES 6: Master Humphrey's Clock: 'wind, wind, wind' 7: Trouble in Eden: American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit 8: The Break III. FORTUNE WITH FAME 9: With Bradbury and Evans 10: Dombey and Son, 'the greatest success' 11: David Copperfield and the Cheap Edition 12: Bleak House and the Literary Croesus 13: Working the Copyrights IV. MAN OF THE WORLD 14: Return to Chapman and Hall 15: 'The End' 16: The Audience Widens APPENDICES Introduction A: Sales and Profits of Dickens's Works, 1846-70 B: The Printing History of Dickens's Monthly Serials, 1846-70 C: Income from Dickens's Works for Dickens, Bradbury and Evans, and Chapman and Hall, 1846-70 D: Income from Household Words and All the Year Round Select Bibliography

The welcome reissue of Charles Dickens and his Publishers is testimony to its enduring importance.