The Paper Record

Related Journals

Start Date(s)

  • 1886 (Stewart)
  • 1885 ("Select List")

End Date(s)

  • 1893 (Stewart)
  • 1895 ()

City

  • London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

  • "Contains notes of the month, biographical sketches, paper mill sketches, foreign news, new machinery, tit-bits from contemporaries, law courts, review of the markets, the book-shelf, forest news, trade news" (Waterloo Online)
  • "Articles on new products or innovations, trade news, financial status of the industry, and short, illustrated sketches of individual mills make up the bulk of this publication. It does not appear to be aimed at a general audience, as esoteric references, chemical formulas, and trade jargon are used throughout" (Waterloo Online)
  • Focuses on "paper-making, printing, etc." (Index p. 19)

Notes

  • "The Paper Record well maintains its reputation as the leading organ of the trade" (Willing's 1891, p. 174)
  • "The Editor of the PAPER RECORD would like to point out that every Wholesale Manufacturing Stationer, every large Printing House, every Publisher of importance in the United Kingdom receives a Copy of each issue of the Paper Record" (Willing's 1891, p. 174)
  • "A monthly periodical designed to give those in the paper and wood pulp trades important information. Articles on new products or innovations, trade news, financial status of the industry, and short, illustrated sketches of individual mills make up the bulk of this publication. It does not appear to be aimed at a general audience, as esoteric references, chemical formulas, and trade jargon are used throughout" (Waterloo Online)
  • "A FOREIGN LIST OF BUYERS OF PAPER has been compiled, with the kind co-operation of three of the first firms of Wholesale Stationers in London. To these houses, situated in every part of the world, copies are regularly dispatched. THE ADVERTISEMENTS that have so long appeared, and are now appearing in The Paper Record, are the best guarantee of its excellence as an Advertising Medium" (Willing's 1891, p. 174)
  • The name of this journal changed over the course of its publication (while nearly everything else remained the same):
    • The title became The Paper, Stationery & Printing Record: An Organ of the Trade (Mar. 1893-May 1895, or vols. 8-10) (COPAC)
    • It then changed again, to The Paper Record & Wood Pulp News (1895-end, or vol. 11, nos. 1-4) (COPAC)
  • Publisher's address (W. Burgess): 23 Charterhouse Square, London (Caspar's 1889, p. 1287)
  • Publisher's address (Heywood & Co.): 29 Ludgate Hill (Willing's 1891, p. 174 and Kelly's 1891, p. 1238); 68 Fleet St. (journal itself, 1893); 154 Holborn (BLT19 Database and Mitchell's 1895, p. 228)

Subject Categories

Sources that Discuss this Journal

  • "Select List" p. 46
  • BLT19
  • COPAC
  • Caspar's Directory p. 1287
  • Index p. 19
  • Mitchell’s 1895 p. 228
  • NSTC
  • Shattock p. 9
  • St. Bride (online)
  • Stewart vol. 3, p. 500
  • Waterloo (online)
  • Willing’s 1891, vol. 18, p. 89, 140, 150, 174

Works Cited

  • "Select List of English and American Periodicals and Reviews." The Torch and Colonial Book Circular, vol. 2, no. 5, Sept. 1888, pp. 41-48. Google Books.
  • BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
  • COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
  • Caspar's Directory of the American Book, edited by Carl Nicolaus Caspar. C. N. Caspar, 1889. Google Books.
  • Index to the Periodical Literature of the World (Covering the Year 1893). The Review of Reviews, 1894. 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.
  • St. Bride Foundation Catalogue, St. Bride Library, 2022.
  • 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.
  • Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.
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