The Paper and Printing Trades Journal

Subtitle: “A Medium of Intercommunication Between Stationers, Printers, Publishers and Booksellers and the Manufacturers”

Start Date(s)

  • 1872 (BLT19)
  • 1877 (Peltz)

End Date(s)

  • 1896 (Zakreski)
  • 1897 (Shattock)
  • 1895 (Stewart)

Editor(s)

Printer/Publisher(s)

City

  • London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

  • 2,500 in 1882 (Hubbard)

Type of Content

  • "Trade table with information given in a condensed form and style that savours of the Transatlantic journalist" ("The Bibliography" vol. 7, p. 92)
  • Contains "articles, columns on foreign and home news related to the book trade, new books, notes on periodicals, trade notices, readers' comments, advertisements" (Zakreski pp. 479-80)
  • "Content consisted of advertising, news, reviews, articles about new products and machinery, printers' jokes (in the form of a column titled 'Quads'), and commentary by Tuer and Hilton on printing samples sent in for a 'Specimens' feature begun in 1874" (Wikipedia, "PPTJ")
  • "A directory of manufacturers was introduced in September 1873 in which, for 1 guinea per annum, manufacturers could have name and addresses listed" (Zakreski p. 479)
  • "An index containing references for articles, items of information, contributors of specimens, advertisers, and directory of manufacturers for the first 32 issues was published in 1881" (Zakreski p. 480); this index was compiled by Edwin P. (or R.) Pearce (Bigmore & Wyman vol. 2, p. 182)
  • "Each issue, however, primarily comprised advertisements for representatives from every aspect of the print industry" (Zakreski p. 479)

Notes

  • "Tuer was also committed to raising the standards and status of modern commercial printing and with this intention, in 1877, he instigated and edited the quarterly Paper and Printing Trades Journal" (Peltz, "Tuer")
  • Hailing says "This is a very extraordinary publication. Extraordinary not only in the style in which it is 'got up'--which simply 'beggars all description,'--but in the manner in which it has reached its present circulation. We were told in a recent number that £50 worth of postage stamps were required for each issue, and that the circulation continues to increase. This is as it should be, for if any one of our trade journals deserves success more than another that one is the Paper and Printing Trades Journal" ("Golden Opinions" p. 16)
  • “A feature of this journal is the publication with each issue of a more or less useful trade table. Its information, which is amusingly put together, is given in a condensed form, and in a style that savours somewhat of the Transatlantic journalist. A ‘Printers’ International Specimen Exchange’ has recently been successfully inaugurated in connection with this journal” (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 182)
  • "A subscription fee of 1s/a was introduced in March 1874. . . . By 1888 it cost 2s/a" (Zakreski p. 480)
  • The journal "increased in size from an average of around 20 pages in its early issues to well over 100 pages in later numbers" (Zakreski p. 480)
  • Shattock says there was a no. 89 published in 1897 (Shattock p. 52)
  • Robert Hilton assisted Tuer in editing from the paper's founding until 1891, when it was sold to John Southward (Wikipedia, "PPTJ")
  • Publisher's address: E. R. Larrance, 5 Wine Office Court (BLT19 Database); or 18 Featherstone Buildings, High Holborn (Index)
  • Publisher's address (Field & Tuer/Ye Leadenhalle Presse): 50 Leadenhall St., London (journal itself)
  • Publisher's address (Rider William and Son, 1891 on): 14 Bartholomew Close and Montague Court, Little Britain St., London (Kelly's 1891, p. 1292)

Subject Categories

Issues

Sources that Discuss this Journal

  • BLT19
  • “The Bibliography” vol. 7, p. 92
  • Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 182
  • COPAC
  • Hailing p. 16
  • Hubbard 1882, p. 1699
  • Index p. 22
  • Mitchell’s 1895 p. 241
  • Peltz
  • Shattock pp. 8-9, 52
  • Stewart vol. 3, p. 500
  • Ulrich and Kup p. 98
  • Watson p. 61
  • Wikipedia, "Paper"

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.
  • BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
  • COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
  • Hailing, Thomas. "Golden Opinions." Hailing's Circular, vol. 1, no. 4, Spring 1879, p. 16-17. Google Books.
  • Hubbard, Harlan P. Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World. Hubbard, 1882-84. Google Books.
  • Index to the Periodical Literature of the World (Covering the Year 1893). The Review of Reviews, 1894. Google Books.
  • Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
  • Peltz, Lucy. "Tuer, Andrew White (1838–1900), printer, publisher, and author." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 Sept. 2004.
  • 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.
  • Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
  • Watson, George, series editor. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 5 vols. Cambridge UP, 1969.
  • Wikipedia contributors. "Paper & Printing Trades Journal." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 18 Mar. 2019.
  • Zakreski, Patricia. "Paper and Printing Trades Journal." Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Marysa Demoor and Laurel Brake, Academia P, 2009, p. 479-80. Google Books.
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