Alternate Title(s)

• John Haddon & Co.’s Diary and Printers’ Guide (COPAC)
• John Haddon & Co.’s Diary and Almanac (NSTC )

Start Date(s)

• 1899 (Shattock)

End Date(s)

• 1901 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Haddon, John

City

• London, England

Type of Content

• 1898 = illustrated and includes index (Cambridge University Library)
• “The literary section occupies some sixty pages, the contents of which may be described as a veritable multum in parvo of valuable information on printing and closely allied matters” (“New Publications” p. 256)
• “A feature of the 1900 vol. is the inclusion of a considerable number of type and ornament specimen pages” (“New Publications” p. 256)

Notes

• "Library catalogues and other sources cite this title variously. At the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, there is John Haddon and Co.'s Printers', Bookbinders', Stationers', and Newspaper Proprietors' Diary and Printers' Guide for 1899, containing a catalogue of machinery and materials for printers. Cambridge University Library lists this separately from John Haddon & Co.'s Printers', Stationers', and Newspaper Proprietors' Diary and Almanac of 1898, although it may be continuous with that title" (Waterloo Online)
• “‘Haddon’s Diary and Printers’ Guide for 1899,’ issued by John Haddon & Co., wholesale and export stationers and Indian and Colonial merchants, Bouverie House, London, E.C., is one of the largest and most complete publications of the kind that has come to the table of The Inland Printer. Messrs. Haddon & Co. are the proprietors of the Caxton Type Foundry, and the first part of the book is given to a wealth of decorative type forms in all the rich colorings for which the English printers are noted. A large and complete line of novelties and specialties in the stationery department is fully illustrated with line cuts, and a large and complete diary, interleaved with blotting sheets, closes the work, which weighs one pound and is nearly an inch and a half thick, containing over three hundred pages of matter” (“Books and Periodicals” p. 608)
• “In its tasteful green cloth cover, the substantial prosperous-looking book is in itself suggestive of the many-sided business dealing with up-to-date printers’ supplies. A better paper, the improved arrangement of matter, and the inclusion of more cuts add to the general appearance” (“New Publications” p. 256)
• “The type faces are well worth careful examination, whilst the pages of typographic ornament will doubtless be maintained at hand for reference in jobbing offices” (“New Publications” p. 256)
• Possibly related to John Haddon & Co.'s Advertiser's Vade Mecum, etc., a 32-page octavo published in 1890 (NSTC)
• Publisher's address (John Haddon & Co.): Bouverie House, London (“Books and Periodicals” p. 608)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Almanack
• Printing Trade
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “Books and Periodicals” (1899) p. 608
• COPAC
• NSTC
• “New Publications” (1899) p. 256
• Shattock p. 53
• St. Bride Catalogue (print) p. 400

Works Cited

• “Books and Periodicals.” The Inland Printer, vol. 22, no. 5, Feb. 1899, p. 608. Google Books.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• “New Publications.” The British Printer, vol. 12, no. 71, Sept.-Oct. 1899, pp. 255-57. Google Books.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• 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 of the Technical Reference Library of Works on Printing and the Allied Arts. Governors, 1919. Google Books.