Start Date(s)

• 1889 (Shattock)

End Date(s)

• 1896 (Shattock)
• 1890 (British Museum Catalogue)
• 1892 (COPAC)

Editor(s)

• Browne, Frederick John

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 20,000 in 1892 (Waterloo (online))

Type of Content

• "Articles on the leading inventions in the printing, stationery, and kindred trades; printing in all its ramifications; notes and queries" (vol. 1, no. 1, 1889)
• Contains articles relevant to the printing trade, specimens, various sizes of paper, newspapers and printing in foreign lands, stories, poetry, correspondence, advertisements (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• "1st. We believe there is a great need for a trade periodical of this description. 2nd. We shall issue regularly every three months: viz., January, April, July and October. 3rd. We shall put before the printing trade (home and foreign) something new and interesting with every issue. 4th. We guarantee a free circulation of at least 5,000 copies every three months, which will be sent by post to the printers of England and its Dependencies, thus giving advertisers the benefit of our well-known and valuable connection at home and abroad. 5th. We shall give articles on all the leading inventions in the printing, stationery and kindred trades by a thoroughly competent correspondent. 6th. We shall also insert instructive articles on printing in all its ramifications, which should be of interest especially to the apprentice and improver. 7th. We intend having a column for notes and queries, and we invite our readers to help us to make this useful page as full as possible" (vol. 1, no. 1, 1889)
• "House journal for Austin, Wood, Browne and Company" (St. Bride's)

Subject Categories

• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• British Museum Catalogue p. 45
• COPAC
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 52
• St. Bride (online)
• Waterloo (online)

Works Cited

• British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, Supplement: Newspapers Published in Great Britain and Ireland 1801-1900. Clowes & Sons, 1905.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• 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.
• St. Bride Foundation Catalogue, St. Bride Library, 2022.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.