Related Journals

• Printer’s Friend
  • Originally just The Printer’s Friend (which ran from 1880-81)

Start Date(s)

• 1882 (COPAC)

End Date(s)

• 1883 (Stewart)

Editor(s)

• Blackman, R.

City

• London, England (journal itself)

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

• Shattock says this ends in June 1883 with no. 8 (Shattock p. 52)
• 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

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.