Alternate Title(s)

• Leeds Typographical Quarterly Circular (Mitchell’s 1895)

Start Date(s)

• 1888 (Webb and Webb)

End Date(s)

• 1894 (Webb and Webb)

Editor(s)

• Attack, Octavius R.

City

• Leeds, England (Shattock)

Type of Content

• Contains trade jottings, correspondence, advertisements (Waterloo Online)
• “Material published included trade notices, correspondence, and ‘Intelligence relating to kindred and other Trade Societies.’ Creative material was not included in the list, and featured extremely infrequently, notably as small poetic fillers in between more serious trade discussions” (Finkelstein p. 158)

Notes

• Issued by the Leeds Typographical Society and edited by the secretary (O. Attack)
• "At the Annual Meeting of our Society, held in January last, the members present very wisely adopted a recommendation of the Committee to make a new departure in the history of our society, namely, to publish a Quarterly Circular in the interests of our venerable and incomparable profession. This is a step in the right direction" (Waterloo Online)
• The address also projects an eventual change to monthly publication. One source says this later became monthly (Waterloo Online)
• "The Leeds Typographical Circular produced by the Leeds Graphical Society in the late 1880s and and 1890s provides extensive details on Demaine. It is still in the hands of the Leeds Graphical Society" (Laybourn and Reynolds p. 74)
• “The Leeds Typographical Society launched its quarterly Leeds Typographical Circular in May 1888, with a solemn promise to run a journal ‘in the interests of our venerable and incomparable profession,’ whose primary aim was ‘the insertion from time to time of a brief account of the proceedings of our Society, notably those efforts which are put forward and achieved for the present, as well as the permanent welfare of our profession as such, and our fellow-craftsmen as a body’” (Finkelstein p. 158)
• Publisher's address: 51 Cobourg St., Leeds (Mitchell's 1895, p. 240)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Finkelstein p. 158
• Harrison et al. p. 280
• Laybourn and Reynolds p. 74
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 240
• Shattock p. 52
• Shep, "Typographical"
• St. Bride (online)
• Waterloo (online)
• Webb and Webb p. 532
• Willing’s 1891, p. 66

Works Cited

• Finkelstein, David. Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World. Oxford UP, 2018.
• Harrison, Royden, G. B. Woolven, and Robert Duncan. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check-List. Humanities P, 1977.
• Laybourn, Keith, and Jack Reynolds. Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918. Croom Helm, 1984.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• 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. “Typographical Press.” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, Updated online edition, 2009. C19 Index.
• 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.
• Webb, Beatrice, and Sydney Webb. The History of Trade Unionism. Longmans, Green, & Co., 1911. Google Books.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.