Household words. : A weekly journal. / Conducted by Charles Dickens.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, editor.

Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872, publisher.

Angell, Engel & Hewitt, publisher.

Bradbury & Evans, printer.

Series:

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society.

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society

Standardized Title:

Household words (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Genre:

Re-issues (Publishing)

Cancel slips (Printing)

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Boards (Binding)

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Weekly

Began in 1850; ceased in 1852?

Continued By:

Dickens' household words: and valuable whispers (New York, N.Y.)

Place of Publication:

New-York [New York] : G.P. Putnam, 155 Broadway

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Title from volume title page of vol. 2.

"Published at the office, no. 16, Wellington Street North, Strand. Printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London."--colophons, no. <4-5>.

American publisher's name appears over the date; dates inferred from the London edition.

Publisher: Angell, Engel & Hewitt, <1851>-1852.

Description based on: No. 4 [April 20, 1850].

Editor: Charles Dickens.

The number for Dec. 21, 1850, called the "Christmas number."

Reissue of the original weekly published in London, 1850-1859. No. <4-5> reissued by George P. Putnam with a cancel slip over the number and the date. By issue 28 his imprint was printed below the caption title. Also issued in semi-annual (volume)compilations. In 1852 <vol. 5, no. 23> was reissued with additional content as: Dicken's household words and valuable whispers. In 1852, <new series vol. 1, no. 4-15> was reissued with additional content as: Dickens' household words, and United States weekly register, then <new series vol. 1, no. 5-15> was reissued with additional content as: Dickens's household words and United States weekly register. In 1853 the title reverted back to Household words, and was marketed as "American edition," which was issued in both a weekly and a monthly edition as well as in semi-annual (volume) compilations, beginning with Vol. 1 (1850). Subscribers could also send back their own collected sets (of whatever years) and have them bound in green publisher's cloth to match the semi-annual compilations.

Local Notes:

American Antiquarian Society copy no. 4-5 have cancel slips. Vol. 2 has London and New York imprints interspersed. Vol. 4, no. 8, 12, printed wrappers and advertisements only.

OCLC:

925539423

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