Related Journals

• Process Work Yearbook--Penrose's Annual
  • This journal splits off from Penrose's Annual in 1896 (see March 1896 editorial for explanation)
• Process Work and Electrotyping
  • Becomes Process Work and Electrotyping from 1904-1921
• Process Work and the Printer
  • Changes title to Process Work and the Printer from 1922-1924

Start Date(s)

• 1893 (journal itself)
• 1896 (COPAC)

End Date(s)

• 1903 (Ulrich and Kup)
• 1924 (Ulrich and Kup)
• 1929 (Willison)

Editor(s)

• Gamble, William

City

• London, England (COPAC)

Type of Content

• "All matters of current interest to Process Workers and Electrotypers are dealt with month by month, and both British and Foreign ideas as to theory and practice are intelligently and comprehensively dealt with. Special columns devoted to Questions and Answers, for which awards are given. It is also the official organ of the Penrose Employment Bureau" ("Process Work" p. 672)
• "Articles contain information on new styles of printing, such as offset printing and colour printing, new styles of printing music, engraving, printing effects, examples of wireless printing" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• "House organ, A. W. Penrose and Co" (Ulrich p. 61)
  • This original house organ version was a "monthly trade circular for the purpose of advertising their business and at the same time informing their customers and friends of the latest novelties and developments in process work" ("Editorial" vol. 4, no. 34, p. 1). This became so popular that it developed into a "regular trade journal with an adequate subscription" ("Editorial" vol. 4, no. 34, p. 1)
• A "little house organ issued by Penrose & Co., London" that contains "every month a number of questions and answers for the exchange of ideas among the workmen" ("Offset Negatives" p. 226)
• This journal changed named several times:
  • It began as Process Work, which ran 3 volumes from March 1893 to February 1896
  • It added "and the Printer" to its title and ran for 3 volumes, from March of 1896 to February 1899, as Process Work and the Printer
  • It then changed back to Process Work (3 vols., April 1899-December 1903)
  • It continued after this as Process Work and Electrotyping until 1921 (vols. 12-26)
  • It then ran briefly as Process Work and the Printer again before ending in 1927 as Process Work and Photo-Litho
  • See Shattock, Ulrich and Kup, and Willison for this publication history
• "All matters of current interest to Process Workers and Electrotypers are dealt with month by month, and both British and Foreign ideas as to theory and practice are intelligently and comprehensively dealt with. Special columns devoted to Questions and Answers, for which awards are given. It is also the official organ of the Penrose Employment Bureau" ("Process Work" p. 672)
• "Up to this point [1921] the journal had been the house organ of Penrose & Co., it then changed its name back to the original title of Process Work & The Printer, and was published by Messrs. Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., Ltd. as an independent quarterly journal. . . . All 30 volumes were edited by Mr. W. Gamble and it forms an important story of trade news and technical progress for the period" (Catalogue 29)
• Publisher's address (Penrose & Co) in 1903: 109 Farringdon Rd., London (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Commercial Art
• Illustration
• Lithography
• Printing Trade

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• NSTC
• "Offset Negatives" p. 226
• "Process Work" p. 672
• Shattock p. 28
• St. Bride (online)
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 608
• Ulrich and Kup p. 61, 90, 208
• Waterloo (online)
• Willison p. 81

Works Cited

• 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.
• "Offset Negatives." The Printing Art, vol. 20, no. 3, Nov. 1912, pp. 226-27. Google Books.
• "Process Work." The Inland Printer, vol. 68, no. 5, Feb. 1922, p. 672. Google Books.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• St. Bride Foundation Catalogue, St. Bride Library, 2022.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• 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.
• Willison, I. R., series editor. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1900-1950. Cambridge UP, 1972.