Start Date(s)

• 1874 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1874 (Bigmore and Wyman)

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• "Information concerning the trade; record and discuss freely and impartially the various questions which constantly arise affecting its interests" ("To Our Readers," vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1)
• "Contains London literary and trade gossip, trade notes and queries, legal intelligence, obituary, letters to the editor, reports of meetings, notes, advertisements" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• "One of the early periodicals published with the object of improving trade conditions" (Catalogue p. 16)
• "The Fleet Street Gazette we announce as a journal conducted by journeymen. There is not, we believe, in existence at the present time, a metropolitan trade journal which represents, or even professes to represent, the interests of the workmen. It will be our aim to furnish the most reliable intelligence concerning the trade, and to record and discuss freely and impartially the various questions which constantly arise affecting its interests. Our object is, not to be the organ of one particular branch, but of the whole Trade" ("To Our Readers," vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1)
• “Whilst it lasted this was published every alternate Saturday, and was intelligently conducted. There were, however, only seven numbers issued, the first dated February 28th, 1874, and the last May 23rd, of the same year” (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 169)
• Publisher's address (H. E. Harberd): 11 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London (journal itself)
• Printer's address (J. S. Levin): 59a Great Tower Street, London (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Book Trade & Bookselling
• Printing Trade
• Publishing

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Bateson p. 88
• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 75, p. 64
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 169
• COPAC
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 52, 2854
• Stewart vol. 2, p. 195
• 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.
• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
• 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.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.