Dates of Publication and/or Sequential Designation
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 30, 1850) -
Note
"A weekly journal". Publisher varies. Description based on surrogate: v. 2 (1851)
Special Numbering
Between v. 4, no. 80? and v. 14, no. 336 individual reprinted issues are updated; from v. 14, no. 337 (Sept. 6, 1856) individual reprinted issues bear the same date as the London originals. Vol. 6, no. 141-v. 7, no. 168 also called: New ser., v. 1, no. 12-new ser., v. 1, no. 40; individual issues of vols. 9-12 also called no. 1-26; v. 13, no. 304-312 also called no. 1-9. [Extra Christmas no.] for 1852 called v. 6, no. 153 = new ser., v. 1, no. 25; [extra Christmas no.] for 1853 called v. 8, no. 196. Also issued in separately numbered monthly parts.
Supplement Note
Extra Christmas no. issued 1851, 1854-1856?
Complexity Note
Initially consisted of copies of the London edition distributed by a New York publisher; later reprints published with New York imprints. Cf. W.E. Buckler, "Household words" in America, in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, v. 45 (1951), p. 160-166.