Editing Our Mutual Friend (section)

==Original publication==
''Our Mutual Friend'', like most Dickens novels, was [[Serial (literature)|published in monthly instalments]]. Each of the 19 instalments cost one shilling (with the exception of the nineteenth, which was double-length and cost two). Each issue featured 32 pages of text and two illustrations by [[Marcus Stone]]. Sales of ''Our Mutual Friend'' were 35,000 for the first monthly number, but then dropped by 5,000 for the second number. The concluding double number (instalments XIX–XX) sold 19,000.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ackroyd |first=Peter |title=Dickens |location=New York |publisher=Harper-Collins |page=[https://archive.org/details/dickens00ackr_1/page/952 952] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-06-016602-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/dickens00ackr_1/page/952 }}</ref>

'''BOOK THE FIRST: THE CUP AND THE LIP'''
* I – May 1864 (chapters 1–4);
* II – June 1864 (chapters 5–7);
* III – July 1864 (chapters 8–10);
* IV – August 1864 (chapters 11–13);
* V – September 1864 (chapters 14–17).
'''BOOK THE SECOND: BIRDS OF A FEATHER'''
* VI – October 1864 (chapters 1–3);
* VII – November 1864 (chapters 4–6);
* VIII – December 1864 (chapters 7–10);
* IX – January 1865 (chapters 11–13);
* X – February 1865 (chapters 14–16).
'''BOOK THE THIRD: A LONG LANE'''
* XI – March 1865 (chapters 1–4);
* XII – April 1865 (chapters 5–7);
* XIII – May 1865 (chapters 8–10);
* XIV – June 1865 (chapters 11–14);
* XV – July 1865 (chapters 15–17).
'''BOOK THE FOURTH: A TURNING'''
* XVI – August 1865 (chapters 1–4);
* XVII – September 1865 (chapters 5–7);
* XVIII – October 1865 (chapters 8–11);
* XIX-XX – November 1865 [chapters 12–17 (Chapter the Last)].