Related Journals

• Bookbinder
  • The British Bookmaker was called The Bookbinder from 1887-1890
• British Printer
  • The British Bookmaker was absorbed by The British Printer in March or April 1894

Start Date(s)

• 1890 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1894 (journal itself)

Editor(s)

• Hilton, Robert
• Gowing-Scopes

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Raithby, Lawrence, & Co.

City

• Leicester, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 10,000 in 1890 (journal itself)

Type of Content

• "Contributions of antiquarian and practical interest, mostly about English books and bindings" (Ulrich & Kup p. 42)
• "Contains book reviews, illustrations, and index" (Ulrich & Kup p. 42)

Notes

• Note that the editors continued numbering sequentially through the name change from The Bookbinder to The British Bookmaker, so the first volume/number of the latter is vol. 4, no. 38
• Was previously The Bookbinder: "The Proprietors of The British Printer (Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd.) having purchased the Copyright, Goodwill, and Stock of The Bookbinder, are about to enlarge the scope of its operations and improve its typographical appearance. . . . It has, however, been felt for some time past that it was as to contents and tone somewhat too academic in character, and with the change of proprietors an attempt will be made to popularize it after the model of The British Printer, so as to enlist the sympathies and interested assistance of both the brain- and hand-workers of our ancient craft” (“Announcement,” vol. 3, no. 36, 30 June 1890, n.p.)
• "We propose during the next year to continue upon our general lines, giving special technical articles on various branches of the trade from time to time. Finishing, Blocking, Tooled and Chiselled Edges will be dealt with; Stationery Binding will be recommenced. Recipes will be given as they may be required, and every effort made to give the latest hints and wrinkles. A short History of the Bookbinders' Trade Societies will take the place of the Trade Charities. Our Prize Competitions which have lately been well taken up will form a prominent feature, and we hope to be able to give Special Prizes at intervals for the best work in other branches of the trade similar to that offered to Finishers recently" ("To Our Readers," vol. 4, 1890-91?)--can't confirm
• "The Bookbinder could hardly be called a trade journal, though it professed to be one, for reasons of which you, as practical men, are well aware; and it was of little more use than the newspaper, which is utterly incapable of giving concise and intelligent information upon all the diverse trades and interests by which it is surrounded. For this reason we determined to make a thorough-going trade journal, in which inventive progress and industrial growth should be studied, and which should be en rapport with current events and aim at aiding and advancing the interests of the trade" ("To Our Readers," vol. 5, no. 49, July 1891, n.p.)
• Absorbed by The British Printer in March/April of 1894 (Ulrich & Kup p. 42)
• Editor's address (Hilton, in 1890): 2a Gresham Press Buildings, Little Bridge St., London (journal itself)
• Editor's address (Hilton and Scopes, in 1891): 25 Pilgrim St., Ludgate Hill, London (journal itself)
• Publisher's address: De Montfort Press, Queen St., Leicester (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Bibliography
• Book Arts
• Book History
• Book Trade & Bookselling
• Design
• Librarianship
• Printing History
• Printing Trade

Issues

• British Bookmaker 4.38 (August 1890)
• British Bookmaker 4.39 (September 1890)
• British Bookmaker 4.40 (October 1890)
• British Bookmaker 4.41 (November 1890)
• British Bookmaker 4.42 (December 1890)
• British Bookmaker 4.43 (January 1891)
• British Bookmaker 4.44 (February 1891)
• British Bookmaker 4.45 (March 1891)
• British Bookmaker 4.46 (April 1891)
• British Bookmaker 4.47 (May 1891)
• British Bookmaker 4.48 (June 1891)
• British Bookmaker 5.49 (July 1891)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 256
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 63
• Ulrich and Kup p. 42

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.