Start Date(s)

• 1881 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1886 (COPAC)

Editor(s)

• Catcheside, W. F.

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 2000 (journal itself)

Type of Content

• Contains trade news and “tittle tattle,” notices of exhibitions, descriptions of new products, and lots of advertising (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• “Circulates throughout the United Kingdom, America, India, and the Colonies. . . . The English Stationer has the largest circulation and the smallest subscription of any journal in the trade” (“English Stationer” p. 225)
• “The English Stationer is the latest accession to the ranks of paper and printing-trades journalism. It has been started by Mr. W. F. Catcheside, who only about six months ago originated Paper-Making. The new journal is a monthly, and printed and published by Messrs. Page & Pratt, of Ludgate-circus-buildings. The first number is a creditable production” (“New Journals” p. 238)
• “N.B. No puffing of advertisers. Guaranteed circulation” (Waterloo Online, advertisement in The Printers’ Friend)
• “This journal is intended to supply a trustworthy organ for the Stationery Trade, combining technical knowledge with independent principles. Hitherto, what is known as the ‘puff’ system has been the life and soul and even the very existence of some trade journals. Buyers of goods have been so misled and readers so wearied by the long-winded praise of articles and novelties submitted for criticism, that now, it is a well-known fact, absolute disgust is felt at this indiscriminate system of puff. . . . We propose to conduct this Journal upon an entirely different basis. We intend to live a life of independence, or not live at all. Our faith in the Stationery Trade is such as to encourage plain, unvarnished criticism, independent of favour or advertisements. We do not believe that respectable houses will compel a puff to accompany or to forerun their advertisements. If they do, then their advertisements will not be accepted, even at the cost of our own existence” (“Our Programme,” vol. 1., no. 1, p. 1)
• Publisher's address (Page and Pratt): 29 Bouverie St., London (“English Stationer” p. 225)
• Publisher's address (Page and Pratt): 5 Ludgate Circus Buildings, London (journal itself)

Subject Categories

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

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• British Museum Catalogue p. 527
• COPAC
• “English Stationer” p. 225
• “New Journals” p. 238
• Sell 1886, p. 243
• Waterloo (online)

Works Cited

• British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, Supplement: Newspapers Published in Great Britain and Ireland 1801-1900. Clowes & Sons, 1905.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• “The English Stationer.” The Advertisers’ Guardian (and Advertisement Agents’ Guide), edited by Louis Collins, vol. 2, 1885, p. 225. Google Books.
• “New Journals.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, no. 81, 13 Sept. 1881, p. 238. Google Books.
• Sell, Henry. Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press. Sell’s Advertising Agency, 1883-1915. Google Books.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.