Related Journals

• Printing Times
  • The Printing Times merged with The Lithographer to become The Printing Times and Lithographer in August of 1874
• Lithographer
  • The Lithographer merged with The Printing Times to become The Printing Times and Lithographer in August of 1874

Start Date(s)

• 1874 (“The Bibliography”)
• 1870 (BLT19)

End Date(s)

• 1891 (Ulrich and Kup)
• 1901 (Bateson)

Editor(s)

• Wyman, Charles William Henry
• Colebrook, Frank

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• This journal’s “Bibliography of Printing” gives details of some 10,000 books, pamphlets, and periodicals, many entries being fully annotated (Berry and Poole p. 249)

Notes

• Merged with The Lithographer in August of 1874 (Richmond p. 246); was called The Printing Times until that date (“The Bibliography,” vol. 7, no. 77, p. 117)
• Motto: “Knowledge is Power” (title page, vol. 1, no. 1, 1873)
• Bigmore and Wyman list all of the separate issues of both titles to date (1881)
• A new series begins in 1875 (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 186) and continues to 1900; however, the new series issues are also numbered according to the old series
• May’s cites a start date of 1869, indicating the possibility of an earlier series or title (or simply an inaccuracy) (1875, p. 135)
• “We shall spare no effort to make The Printing Times a complete and trustworthy monthly compendium of trade news from all parts of the world. We shall deal with all questions which may arise, either between any of the various branches of the trade, or within any given branch itself, with all fairness and frankness. Moreover we shall willingly throw open our columns to the full and free discussion of all such questions by the parties who are more or less immediately interested in them. . . . Having said this much, we retire at once into the obscurity of the editorial impersonality” (“To Our Readers,” vol. 1, no. 1, 1873, p. 1)
• “The Printing Times is launched because it is thought that it will supply a well-defined and long-felt want. We have no disparaging word to say of our trade contemporaries. They fulfil, and fulfil ably, a distinct function of their own, with which we have no desire to interfere. But we believe -- and we have abundant reason to know that we are not alone in the belief -- that an independent journal is required which shall, so to speak, draw all the various branches of the Printing trade into one focus, and become not only their record of events, but their organ of intercommunication on all trade topics” (“To Our Readers,” vol. 1, no. 1, 1873, p. 1)
• An ad in May’s Press Guide of 1875 reads: “The Printing Times and Lithographer is the leading journal of the printing profession and has a large circulation in Great Britain and abroad. It presents and excellent medium for advertisements addressed to Letter-press, Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printers, Stationers, Bookbinders, and the Trade generally, in all parts of the world” (May’s 1875, p. 135)
• “The Printing Times and Lithographer is a high-class journal, devoted to the Printing and Graphic Arts, in all of their various forms. It derives its information from, and circulates in, all parts of the world. . . . The Printing Times and Lithographer is a thoroughly established journal, whose contents are well read, and carefully preserved” (Wolf p. 286)
• “The Bibliography of Printing,” which ran from 1876 to 1885 and was mostly edited by John Southward, “was published in book form in three volumes 1880-86” (Berry and Poole p. 249)
• Publisher’s address (Wyman and Sons): 74, 75, and 81 Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields (journal itself in 1875); 74-75 Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields (journal itself in 1880); 165 Queen Victoria Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields (BLT19 Database)
• Publisher’s address (H. G. Davies, in 1889): Kensington Chambers, 73 Ludgate Hill (Caspar’s p. 1287)

Subject Categories

• Book Trade News
• Lithography
• Printing History
• Printing Trade
• Publishing
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• Bateson p. 88
• Berry and Poole p. 249
• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 77, p. 117
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 186
• Caspar's Directory p. 1287
• Peterson p. 184
• Ulrich and Kup p. 57, 87
• Waterloo (online)
• Willing’s 1875, p. 135
• Wolf p. 286

Works Cited

• Bateson, Frederick Wilse. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 3: 1800-1900. Series editor George Watson. Cambridge UP, 1969.
• Berry, W. Turner, and H. Edmund Poole. Annals of Printing: A Chronological Encyclopedia from the Earliest Times to 1950. Blandford P, 1966.
• “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.
• 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.
• Peterson, William S. The Kelmscott Press: A History of Willam Morris's Typographical Adventure. U of California P, 1991.
• 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.
• Wolf, Lucien. Exhibition and Market of Machinery, Implements and Material Used by Printers, Stationers, Papermakers and Kindred Trades, Official Catalogue of Exhibits. Robert Dale, 1880. Google Books.