Related Journals

• Amateur Printers’ Journal and Foreign Stamp Gazette
  • Was originally the Amateur Printers’ Journal and Foreign Stamp Gazette (Dec. 1871 or Jan. 1872 through Mar. 1872)

Start Date(s)

• 1872 (Bigmore and Wyman)
• 1871 (Tiffany)

End Date(s)

• 1872 (Bigmore and Wyman)

Editor(s)

• Wightman, William
• Whitaker, Joseph (Whitaker & Sons, Ltd.)

City

• Leeds, England (Bigmore and Wyman)

Type of Content

• "Contains tales, correspondence, information about philately and printing" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• "Published monthly and circulated widely throughout the United Kingdom" (Tiffany p. 52)
• The Printing Times and Lithographer’s bibliography says that a journal called The Amateur Printers’ Journal began in Leeds in 1872 as a “medium of intercommunication for the amateur Printing and Foreign Stamp trade” (“The Bibliography” p. 13)
• “As an amateur printer’s journal this is a creditable performance, though even an amateur need not have allowed ‘How I Climed a Tree’ to go to press. As a foreign stamp gazette, it is nowhere. An article on Stamp Collecting, by J. E. Gray, ‘reprinted from one of his books,’ and a catalogue of stamps constitute its sole attraction. We are surprised to find such sounding pretentions so poorly supported” (“Reviews” p. 110)
• Editor address (Wightman): 27 Derby Crescent, Leeds (journal itself)
• Publisher's address (Sykes): Commercial Street and Hope Street, Morley, Leeds (Tiffany p. 52)

Subject Categories

• Philately
• Printing Trade

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, p. 13
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 157
• COPAC
• “Reviews of Postal” p. 110
• Tiffany 52
• Waterloo (online)

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.
• “Reviews of Postal Publications.” The Stamp-Collector’s Magazine, vol. 10, 1872, pp. 110-11. Google Books.
• Tiffany, John K. The Philatelical Library: A Catalogue of Stamp Publications. St. Louis, 1874. Google Books.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.