Alternate Subtitle(s)

• “An organ of intercommunication between newspaper proprietors, journalists, editors, reporters, correspondents, paper makers, stationers, type founders, printers, compositors, readers, newsvendors, advertisement agents, publishers, and ‘the trade’”--this subtitle is used on the first page of many volumes (journal itself)

Related Journals

• Printers’ Register
  • The Newspaper Press was incorporated with The Printers' Register in July 1872 (Bigmore and Wyman) or 1873 (Ulrich and Kup) and continued under that title until 1956

Start Date(s)

• 1866 (journal itself)
• 1867 (Bigmore and Wyman)

End Date(s)

• 1872 (Bigmore and Wyman)
• 1873 ()

Editor(s)

• Andrews, Alexander

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• "A receptacle for items of interest to all Press people" ("One Word," vol. 1, no. 1, 1866, p. 3)
• "Reports bankruptcies" (Lee p. 90)
• "Useful for circulation data" (Shattock p. 2854)
• Special feature: "The Month's Bright Ideas" (Ulrich and Kup p. 60)

Notes

• Note that the image above is of the bound 2-volume edition of the periodical and thus bears the date 1867, even through the first issue is dated 1 Dec. 1866
• Incorporated with The Printers' Register in July 1872 (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 179) or 1873 (Ulrich and Kup p. 89). The last scan Hathitrust has of The Newspaper Press is dated 1 June 1872, leading to the impression that Bigmore and Wyman are correct
• King calls this a "gossipy monthly" which is good for understanding how costs and economics worked for Victorian periodicals (King, "Periodical" p. 66)
• "The Newspaper Press will be what its name imports,--a receptacle for items of interest to all Press people. The researches into the past history of journalism which were prepared for the paper we formerly contemplated, were ten years ago published in a series of papers in the New Monthly Magazine, and subsequently amplified into the 'History of British Journalism,' brought out in two volumes by Mr. Bentley; but there are always many facts cropping up which will afford material for occasional articles on the Rise and Progress of the Press" ("One Word," vol. 1, no. 1, 1866, p. 3).
• An edited version of the English translation of Clarigny's "Histoire de la Presse en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis" appeared in installments from 1 June 1871 (Jones p. 57)
• “The Newspaper Press recorded 20 bankruptcies associated with newspapers in 1867, 28 in 1868, 24 in 1869, and 15 in 1890” (Lee p. 90)
• “Alexander Andrews, author of a standard history of the British press in 1859, and editor of The Newspaper Press (1867-72), pointed out its [Mitchell’s] failure to record ephemeral sheets, and the omission of others due to oversight or to the ignorance of proprietors of such an admirable publication as the Directory” (Lee p. 67)

Subject Categories

• Journalism
• Newspapers
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade
• Publishing
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 76, p. 91
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 179
• COPAC
• Jones p. 57
• King, "Periodical" p. 66
• Lee p. 67, 90
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 2854
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 382
• Ulrich and Kup p. 60, 89
• 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.
• Jones, Aled. Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England. Ashgate, 1996.
• King, Andrew. "Periodical Economics." The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers, edited by King, Alexis Easley, John Morton. Routledge, 2016, pp. 60-74.
• Lee, Alan J. The Origins of Popular Press in England 1855-1914. Rowman and Littlefield, 1976.
• 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.
• 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.