Related Journals

• Printers’ Friend and Stationers’ Circular
  • Becomes The Printers' Friend and Stationer's Circular in 1882

Start Date(s)

• 1880 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1881 (COPAC)

Editor(s)

• Blackman, R.

Printer/Publisher(s)

• R. Blackman & Co., Engravers

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 6,000 in 1881 (Waterloo (online))

Type of Content

• Advertisements with extracts from various printing trade journals (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 184)
• Contains stationery notes, novelties, advertisements (no. 1, 1880); reviews (no. 2, 1881); notes on printing specimens, American stationery novelties, notes on publications received (no. 3, 1881); printing notes (no. 5, 1882) (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• "The object of THE PRINTER'S FRIEND is to make a humble effort to raise the character of illustration as employed in ordinary commercial work. With this view, we shall devote our close attention to the production of new and improved designs for printers. The expense of a wood engraving is obvious, and it is to provide printers with a ready and economical method of illustrating trade work, that we hope to enjoy a useful and successful repute. Any design based upon an original idea can be put in hand, submitted for approval, and, finally, electors supplied at a nominal rate, of course, on the understanding that the design becomes our property. We publish in The Printer's Friend, specimens of various designs for paper bags, tobacco-papers, &c., &c., electors of which can be obtained from us or Mr. Frederick Ullmer, at any time. . . . We must not forget to call the attention of all our readers to the advertisements in this issue. These are announcements from firms of high standing, whose goods and reputation can always be relied upon" ("To Our Readers," vol. 1, no. 2, p. 1)
• This journal becomes The Printer's Friend and Stationer's Circular in 1882 (COPAC)
• Printer’s address (Page & Pratt, in 1880): 5 Ludgate Circus Buildings (journal itself)
• Publisher’s address (Blackman, in 1880): 29 Ludgate Hill (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Commercial Art
• Design
• Illustration
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade

Issues

• The Printer's Friend 1.1 (November 1880)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” p. 117
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 184
• COPAC
• NSTC
• Sell 1887, p. 460
• Shattock p. 52
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 604
• Waterloo (online)
• Watson vol. 3, p. 61

Works Cited

• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• Sell, Henry. Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press. Sell’s Advertising Agency, 1883-1915. Google Books.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.
• Watson, George, series editor. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 5 vols. Cambridge UP, 1969.