The British & Colonial Printer & Stationer, and Newspaper Press Record

Subtitle: “A Weekly Newspaper for the Printing & Allied Trades”

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Start Date(s)

  • 1878 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

  • 1879 (COPAC)

Editor(s)

Printer/Publisher(s)

City

  • London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

  • 3,250 (Hubbard)

Type of Content

  • "Covers events great and small and sources of supply in the trade during the past 70 years" (Catalogue p. 12)
  • "A trade magazine of local interest, rather than for general study. Special features: commercial review of printing establishments, guide to sources of supply, want advertisements" (Ulrich & Kup p. 53, 84)
  • "PRINTING: Doings of the craft—Printing in the Provinces—Colonial Intelligence—Foreign News—Criticisms on Specimens—New Machinery—Type Specimens—Original Trade Technical Articles—Descriptions and Illustrations of British Establishments—Letters from Our Correspondents—and every item of News concerning the Trade during the preceding 14 days. STATIONERY: Novelties illustrated and Described—Fac-Similies of Christmas and New Years Cards—and Playing Cards—Technical Articles—Stationery in the Provinces—American Notes—Industries of the Trade—Reviews—Gazette. PAPER-MAKING: Mill News—Trade Gossip—Occasional Samples of Paper—Technical Articles—Descriptions of Factories—Market Prices—Gazette" (Hubbard vol. 1, p. 916)
  • "Like many other exponents of the typographical press, this publication included the latest trade news and statistics, feature articles, voluminous advertising, biographies, letters to the editor, literary works, description of trade events and social occasions, and gossip for and about the trade. It also participated fully in the journalistic practice of 'cut-and-paste' which insured wide circulation of material from trade exchanges to quirky snippets of arcane or humorous knowledge" (Shep, "British and Colonial")

Notes

  • "The motto for the paper, 'Free and Unshackled,' was shared with Stonhill's other journalistic enterprise, The Paper Trade Review" (Shep, "British and Colonial")
  • "This important international journal that eventually encompassed all the book trades began as a 32pp. bi-monthly octavo then weekly 16pp. tabloid format from 1881-82, later doubling in size and price from 4/- per annum to 8/- post free" (Shep, "British and Colonial")
  • "The opening number of The British and Colonial Printer signalled its intent with a profile of William Blades and an editorial that emphasised the paper as independent, newsy, lively, business-oriented, and suited for Colonial and Foreign as well as Home Readers" (Shep, "British and Colonial")
  • "It will be, first of all, an independent journal, free from bias, private interest, private enmity, private predilection. . . . It will be a condensed, newsy journal, containing the essence of the current trade intelligence, free from verbiage, disencumbered with uninteresting disquisitions. . . . It will be a lively paper, one that will be a pleasure, not a labour, to read; one that will cheer up the long hours of labour with an occasional smile, and enliven the hours of leisure with a happy thought or a pungent joke. . . . It will be a business paper for business men; one that will provide them with whatever is essential to their needs, but without inflicting on them matter that they care little about, or is too trivial to occupy their time. . . . It will be suited for Colonial and Foreign as well as Home readers. The interests of all will be impartially studied, and undue prominence will be accorded to none" ("Introducing Ourselves," vol. 1, no. 1, p. 8)
  • John Southward was the most prolific contributor (Shep, "British and Colonial")
  • Publisher's address (Stonhill & Gillis): Imperial Buildings, 5 Ludgate Circus (Shep); 58 Shoe Lane, Holborn Viaduct (BLT19)

Subject Categories

Issues

Sources that Discuss this Journal

  • BLT19
  • Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 162
  • Brown and Stratton p. 241
  • Hailing p. 17
  • Hubbard vol. 1, p. 916
  • Mitchell’s 1895 p. 62
  • Sell 1887, pp. 133, 711
  • Shattock p. 52
  • Shep, "British and Colonial"
  • St. Bride (online)
  • Stewart vol. 1, p. 406
  • Ulrich and Kup pp. 53, 84
  • Waterloo (online)
  • Willing’s p. 289

Works Cited

  • Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
  • BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
  • Brown, Peter, and George B. Stratton. World List of Scientific Periodicals Published in the Years 1900-1960. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1963.
  • Hailing, Thomas. "Golden Opinions." Hailing's Circular, vol. 1, no. 4, Spring 1879, p. 16-17. Google Books.
  • Hubbard, Harlan P. Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World. Hubbard, 1882-84. Google Books.
  • Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
  • Sell, Henry. Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press. Sell’s Advertising Agency, 1883-1915. Google Books.
  • Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
  • Shep, Sydney J. “The British and Colonial Printer and Stationer and Newspaper Press Record.” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, Updated online edition, 2009. C19 Index.
  • St. Bride Foundation Catalogue, St. Bride Library, 2022.
  • Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
  • Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
  • The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.
  • Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.
  • The World's Paper Trade Review, vol. 20, no. 5, 1893, p. 9. Google Books.
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