The novel was serialized weekly in All the Year Round between December 1860 and August 1861, and then, unusually for Dickens, published in three unillustrated volumes. |
It takes the form of a sombre, hard-backed, slim volume, unillustrated and typographically conventional, a bit like a hymn book, complete with black ribbon place marker. |
Apparently an attempt at serious literature, it takes the form of a sombre, hard-backed, slim volume, unillustrated and typographically conventional. |
It was 48 pages long, it was unillustrated and was printed, unbound, on cheap paper. |