Start Date(s)

• 1887 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1962 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Dorrington, William

Printer/Publisher(s)

• William Dorrington

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 8,000 in 1887 (journal itself)
• 8,200 in 1893 (journal itself)

Type of Content

• "Register of new and second-hand machinery, engines, materials, &c., used in the above trades, also businesses for sale, auction sales, partnerships, premises to let, situations wanted and vacant, and all trade wants, novelties, new inventions & general trade news" (title page, 1911)

Notes

• Title is sometimes shortened to just Sales and Wants Advertiser (Mitchell's 1895, p. 231)
• Underneath title reads: "A Monthly Register of New & Second-hand Machinery, Engines, Materials, &c., used in the above Trades, also Businesses FOR SALE, Auction Sales, Partnerships, Premises to Let, Situations Wanted and Vacant, and all Trade Wants" (journal itself)
• Title page states that guaranteed circulation "of next and succeeding issues" is 8,000 copies, but this information may not be accurate (journal itself)
• "Indispensable to every printing office, bindery, or graphic art studio" (Ulrich and Kup p. 110)
• This journal incorporated with The Printing Trades Journal in 1963 and eventually with The Printing World as well (Shattock p. 52)
• Publisher's address (Dorrington Bros., in 1891): 8 Windsor Court, Strand (journal itself); Bear Alley, Farringdon Street (BLT19 Database)
• Printer's address (C. R. Jones and Sons): 58 Lombard St. (COPAC)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Book Trade & Bookselling
• Lithography
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade

Issues

• Printers’, Bookbinders’, Lithographers’, and Stationers’ Sales and Wants Advertiser 1.1 (26 Mar. 1887)
• Printers’, Bookbinders’, Lithographers’, and Stationers’ Sales and Wants Advertiser 6.71 (16 Jan. 1893)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• COPAC
• Caspar's Directory 1889, p. 1287
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 231
• Shattock p. 52
• Ulrich and Kup p. 60, 89, 110
• Waterloo (online)
• Willing’s 1891, p. 94

Works Cited

• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• Caspar's Directory of the American Book, edited by Carl Nicolaus Caspar. C. N. Caspar, 1889. Google Books.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.