Start Date(s)

• 1866 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1912 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Dorrington, William

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 4000/month (May's)

Type of Content

• “Contains all News of interest to Printers, Newspaper Proprietors, and Editors, among whom it circulates 4,000 monthly” (May's 1871, p. 62)

Notes

• Title is often shortened to The Press News in registers and directories
• “A journal of business for printers” (Waterloo Print, p. 642)
• “Organ of the printing trade” (May’s 1871, p. 14)
• “The Press News is an Organ for Printers, Newspaper Proprietors, and all connected with the press. All the trade news of the month is given; with practical original articles by the editor” (Mitchell’s 1895, p. 75)
• Subtitle was changed in 1867 to “a monthly literary and business journal” (Tildsley p. 176)
• Dorrington “was proprietor, editor, printer, and publisher” (Tildsley p. 176)
• The 1869 volume contains Dorrington’s series of “Press Characters” compiled by Patrick Leary (click here to access)
• “The literary connections were severed and the subtitle dropped altogether in later issues, as the journal focused solely upon ‘Trade connected with the Art of Printing.’ Early issues of The Press News also include engraved illustrations by, and an advert for, ‘George Dorrington, Artist and Engraver’” (Tildsley p. 176)
• During 1893, the proprietors changed to C. and H. Dorrington (Tildsley p. 176)
• “The final issues of the periodical were presided over by ‘Provincial Newspaper Proprietors, Dorrington Bros.’” (Tildsley p. 176)
• Clips from The Press News appear very frequently throughout Hailing’s Circular (see vol. 2, p. 53, 56, 64, 75)
• Publisher’s address; Bear Alley, Farringdon St. (Willing’s 1895, p. 73); 3 Tamworth Terrace, Hornsey Rd. (May’s 1871, p. 14); 8 Windsor Court, Strand (Caspar’s 1889, p. 1287)

Subject Categories

• Newspapers
• Printing Trade
• Publishing

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 76, p. 91
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 177
• COPAC
• Caspar's Directory p. 1287
• May's 1871, p. 14, 62
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 75
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 51, 2854
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 94
• Tildesley p. 176
• Ulrich and Kup p. 22, 57
• Willing’s 1895, p. 73

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.
• Caspar's Directory of the American Book, edited by Carl Nicolaus Caspar. C. N. Caspar, 1889. Google Books.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• May's London Press Dictionary and Advertiser's Handbook, edited by Frederick May. Frederick May Publishing, 1871-90. Google Books.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• 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.
• Tildesley, Matthew Brinton. “William Dorrington.” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Marysa Demoor and Laurel Brake, Academia P, 2009, p. 176. Google Books.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.