Alternate Title(s)

• Gazette and Chronicle (The Bookman)

Related Journals

• Book & News Trade Gazette and the Stationery and Fancy Trades’ Gazette
  • This journal evolved from the Book & News Trade Gazette and the Stationery and Fancy Trades' Gazette (presumably when it incorporated the Newsagents' Chronicle)

Start Date(s)

• 1898 (COPAC)

End Date(s)

• 1907 (COPAC)

Editor(s)

• Foxwell, Sydney H. E.

City

• London, England (Bookman)

Type of Content

• "Book trade gossip, new books worth reading, points about newspapers, periodicals, &c., points about magazines, Scotch notes, advertisements, provincial jottings, the books of the week, trade intelligence (1898), book gossip, brief notices, poetry (1899)" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• "Official organ of the Wholesale Newsagents' Association" (journal itself)
• “Publishers will find this paper a sure medium for reaching the largest and best Booksellers and Newsagents in Town and Country” (Bookman p. xxii)
• “The Reviews and Notices are specially intended to direct Trade buyers, and as the ‘Gazette and Chronicle’ is the chosen guide of the middle-class Bookseller, such notices have a greater value in fostering sales than those in many other Journals. The ‘Gazette and Chronicle’ also deals fully with Magazines, Stationary, Fancy Goods, Picture Post-cards, and all ‘side’ lines of the Retail Trade” (Bookman p. xxii)
• Publisher's address: 27 Chancery Lane, London (BLT19 Database)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Book Trade News
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• Bateson p. 101
• The Bookman p. xxii
• COPAC
• Growoll pp. 171-72
• Waterloo (online)

Works Cited

• Bateson, Frederick Wilse. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 3: 1800-1900. Series editor George Watson. Cambridge UP, 1969.
• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• The Bookman, vol. 25, no. 147, Dec. 1903, xxii. Google Books.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Growoll, Adolf. "Periodicals Published for the English Booktrade 1797-1903." Three Centuries of English Booktrade Bibliography, ed. Growoll and Wilberforce Eames. Holland P, 1903, pp. 163-73. Google Books.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.