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Publication Date and Frequency

• January
• 1872 (Tiffany)
• monthly (Tiffany)

Issue Editor(s)

• William Wightman (Jones, Jones’)

Printer/Publisher Information

• Thomas Sykes (Tiffany) Commercial Street and Hope Street, Morley (Tiffany) Leeds, England (Tiffany)

Paper Size, Paper Format, and Number of Pages

• 10 x 7.5 in (Tiffany)
• 4to (COPAC)
• 16 pages (journal itself)

Price

• 2d for a single issue (journal itself)

Notes

• 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” (PT&L 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” 110)
• "Published monthly and circulated widely throughout the United Kingdom" (Tiffany 52)