Related Journals

• Printing Times and Lithographer
  • Incorporated with The Printing Times to become The Printing Times and Lithographer in July 1873 or Aug. 1874 (see note)

Start Date(s)

• 1870 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1874 (Shattock)
• 1873 (Bigmore and Wyman)

Editor(s)

• Watt, P. B.

City

• London, England (Bigmore and Wyman)

Type of Content

• Journal of lithography, typography, and the reproductive arts; correspondents, advertisements, articles, correspondence, recent inventions, patents which have become void (1870); practical hints for young lithographers, a novel trade union, law intelligence, publications received, correspondence, answers to correspondents, while the press waits (1874) (Waterloo Online)
• Richmond’s Grammar of Lithography originally appeared in this journal (Richmond p. 246)

Notes

• Incorporated with The Printing Times either in July 1873 (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 176) or in Aug. 1874 (“The Bibliography” p. 91, Ulrich & Kup p. 57, Richmond p. 246)
• Subtitle changed to “A Monthly Journal of Lithography and its Kindred Arts” in 1871 and then to “A Monthly Journal of Lithography, Typography, and the Reproductive Arts” in 1873 (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 176)
• “The Lithographer is published monthly, and circulates widely throughout the lithographic trade in the United Kingdom, India and the Colonies” (vol. 1, no. 2, p. 1)
• “We propose, therefore, that The Lithographer shall apply itself to the dissemination of useful information amongst the members of the trade and its various concomitant branches; and that its contents shall be equally acceptable to the employer and the employee, as a means of calling forth the energies of both, and in encouraging the development of the Fine Arts. It must be admitted that in Art-Lithography we are behind our Continental brethren. There is no reason that we are aware of why this unequal state of things should exist, and that we should not hold our own with foreign competitors in artistic design and execution as well as in the more solid of our industries. To carry out these objects is the aim and scope of this Journal; and for this purpose we would invite suggestions on all matters of importance bearing on the profession through the medium of our correspondence column. It will also be our duty to carefully examine and elucidate all questions submitted for our consideration; and, at the same time, we will keep our readers well informed as to all improvements, inventions, discoveries, &c., which in any way concerns the trade” (“Our First Issue,” vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1)--I can’t find this to confirm
• Began a new series in 1875 (Richmond p. 246)
• The Printing Times and Lithographer will return to the title of The Lithographer in September of 1891 (Bibliography)
• Editor’s address (P. B. Watt): 14 Washington St., Glasgow
• Publisher’s address (Wyman and Sons): 74-76 Great Queen Victoria St., London (BLT19 Database)

Subject Categories

• Book Arts
• Fine Art
• Lithography
• Printing History
• Printing Trade
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• “The Bibliography” p. 91
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 176
• Richmond p. 246
• Roberts p. 79
• Shattock p. 51
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 68
• Ulrich and Kup p. 57, 87
• 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.
• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• Richmond, W. D. The Grammar of Lithography. London, 1878.
• Roberts, Helene E. “British Art Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, no. 9, 1970, pp. 1–183. JSTOR.
• 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.
• 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.