Start Date(s)

• 1884 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1888 (COPAC)

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Austin Wood & Co.

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• "Sections include: surplus stock, typographia, our own tit-bits, the printers' grammar, foreign invasion, out and about, taste and skill, correspondence" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• "This periodical is intended to be the means of bringing ourselves into closer communication, and further developing our trade, with Printers; at the same time supplying good, sound, practical information gathered from our own and other sources, so that the reading may be of a useful character. We shall not hunt up the old manuscripts at the British Museum, or re-print editions of the works of by-gone generations; we shall endeavour to be of practical use to our patrons, by recording the latest current events, and describing all the new inventions and improvements in the allied branches of the Art Preservative" ("The Opening Address," vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1)
• “Since 1861 a great number of trade periodicals have come into existence, and we cannot help reflecting what a vacuum there was twenty years ago, when there was not a single trade periodical, yet, in Type Founding literature, there remains a large field to enter upon and cultivate” ("The Opening Address," vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1)
• "In January 1884, London type founder Austin, Woods [sic], & Company began publication of a periodical titled Anglo-American Typographia to agitate against American imports and provide a showcase for British-made type using American styles. Austin, Woods [sic], & Company and other British type founders were concerned that the import of American type fonts were depriving British workers of jobs because there were no import duties on metal type and American imported type could undersell British type. Consequently, Austin, Woods [sic], & Company would copy American designs and sell them at significantly lower costs. Other companies also pirated the fancy imported typefaces" (Knies p. 24)
• Printer/publisher's address (Austin Wood): 11 & 12 Parkfield Street, Islington (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Printing Trade
• Typography

Issues

• Austin Wood & Co.'s Anglo-American Typographia 1.1 (January 1884)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• Knies p. 24
• NSTC

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Knies, Michael. "The Impact of the American Typeface Invasion as Documented in British Printing Trade Periodicals, 1878-1888." Paper abstract, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Forty-Fifth Annual Conference, University of Salford, July 2013.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.