The Journal of the Typographic Arts
Subtitle: “Devoted to the Interests of Every Department of the Printing Profession”
Start Date(s)
End Date(s)
Printer/Publisher(s)
City
- London, England (journal itself)
Type of Content
- Information on wages and conditions (Catalogue p. 19)
- Contains “correspondence, bankrupts, partnerships dissolved, obituary, advertisements” (Waterloo Online)
Notes
- "The first number of this serial, which was issued monthly, was published January, 1860, and the last, May 1862" (“The Bibliography” p. 66)
- "The attempt to establish a Metropolitan journal in connexion with the printing profession is by no means a novelty. . . . We are anxious to deal with printing as an art, and to discuss whatever is connected with it in its artistic aspects. We shall therefore make a point of reviewing the productions of the type-foundries, illustrating our notices with specimens. . . . We believe that [employers] will not fail to appreciate a medium of communication between themselves and their workmen, which may be made the means of preventing misunderstanding, of removing wrong impressions, and of cultivating that familiarity which breeds, not contempt, but respect" ("Editorial Address," 1860, no. 1, p. 1)
- “Our magazine is the organ of no Society, represents no party, and is committed to no policy, either Radical or Conservative. It is to be hoped that this independence of position will be no bar to our prosperity” ("Editorial Address," 1860, no. 1, p. 1)
- “We are anxious to deal with printing as an art, and to discuss whatever is connected with it in its artistic aspects. This is the more necessary because it has been undergoing great modification during the last few years, and the processes of that modification are not yet arrested, nor are they likely to be. The printing of the present day compared with that which was produced, say fifty years since, exhibits an improvement so marked and decisive, as to be obvious to the most careless observer. But room for further development remains, and we shall regard every department of industry concerned in this production of the printed book or newspaper as coming legitimately within the range of our observation” ("Editorial Address," 1860, no. 1, p. 1)
- “The Typographic Journal commenced its existence last January [1860]; eight numbers are now issued. It is ‘devoted to the interests of every department of the printing profession,’ and should be read in every printing office in the kingdom. We strongly commend it to the ‘trade.’ It is sold at 1 1/2 d” (“Phonetic” p. 385)
- Publisher's address (Everett, from January 1860 to June 1860): 34 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London
- Publisher's address (Moss, beginning July 1860; Moss also becomes the printer in November 1860): 6 Raquet [sic] Court, Fleet Street, London (“Phonetic” p. 385)
- Printer's address (Gilbert and Rivington, until November 1860): 52 St. John's Square, London
Subject Categories
Issues
Sources that Discuss this Journal
- “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 75, p. 66
- Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 174
- COPAC
- NSTC
- “Phonetic” p. 385
- Shattock 51
- Waterloo (online)
Works Cited
- “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.
- “Phonetic Printing and Writing.” The Phonetic Journal, vol. 19, 18 Aug. 1860, pp. 385-86. Google Books.
- Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
- The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.
