Related Journals

• Paper-Makers’ Circular [and Rag Merchants’ Gazette and Price Current]
  • Was originally called The Paper-Makers' Circular [and Rag Merchants' Gazette and Price Current] (which ran from 1861-62)
  • Became The Paper Makers’ Circular [and Rag Merchants’ and Wholesale Stationers’ Weekly Gazette and Price Current] in 1874
  • For a short period of time (1863-64), it seems that the latter half of this title changed to [and Rag Price Current]

Start Date(s)

• 1874 (COPAC)
• 1883 (NSTC )

End Date(s)

• 1907 (Brown and Stratton)

Printer/Publisher(s)

• S. C. Phillips & Co.

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• Contains "trade news, markets, a paper-box supplement" (Waterloo Online)
• “Contains valuable articles on the theory and practice of Paper-Making a carried on at home and abroad. It gives particulars of all New Inventions and Improvements, Technical Information, Occurrences of Passing Interest, and General Memoranda for all Branches of the Trade. It gives Special Reports from Own Correspondents on the state of the Paper Trade Prices Current of Foreign and Home Rags, Esparto, Chemicals, and every description of Paper Making Material; also Material used by Paper-Makers’ Engineers” (Sell’s 1887, p. 1022)

Notes

• “The oldest established and the recognized representative of the paper trade in Great Britain” (Sell’s 1887, p. 1022)
• "Intelligence interesting to paper makers, engineers, rag merchants, etc." (Mitchell's 1895, p. 228)
• “The Paper Makers’ Circular circulates in all centres and seats of commercial activity throughout the United Kingdom, the Colonies and abroad; among Paper Makers, their Managers and Employees; among Rag and Raw Material Merchants of all kinds; the Manufacturing and wholesale Firms in the Trade; Pape Makers’ Engineers; Chemical and Colour Manufacturers, and all other Trades auxiliary to Paper Making” (Sell’s 1887, p. 1022)
• Publisher's address (Dean & Son/S. C. Phillips & Co.): 130A Fleet St. (Mitchell's 1895, p. 228)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade

Issues

• Paper Makers’ Circular [and Rag Merchants’ and Wholesale Stationers’ Weekly Gazette and Price Current] no. 1 (19 Jan. 1874)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Bateson vol. 1, p. 73
• British Museum Catalogue p. 674
• Brown and Stratton vol. 2, p. 1049
• COPAC
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 228
• NSTC
• Sell 1887, p. 1022
• Shattock p. 9
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 499
• Waterloo (online)
• Whitaker & Sons 1906, p. 23

Works Cited

• Bateson, Frederick Wilse. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 3: 1800-1900. Series editor George Watson. Cambridge UP, 1969.
• British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, Supplement: Newspapers Published in Great Britain and Ireland 1801-1900. Clowes & Sons, 1905.
• Brown, Peter, and George B. Stratton. World List of Scientific Periodicals Published in the Years 1900-1960. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1963.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• 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.
• Sell, Henry. Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press. Sell’s Advertising Agency, 1883-1915. Google Books.
• 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.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.
• Whitaker & Sons. The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature. J. Whitaker, 1906. HathiTrust.