Amateur Printers’ Journal and Foreign Stamp Gazette
Volume 1, Issue 4
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Publication Date and Frequency
- March 1872 (
Tiffany
) - monthly (
Tiffany
)
Issue Editor(s)
-
, William Wightman (
Jones, Jones’
)
Printer/Publisher Information
- Thomas Sykes (
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)