Start Date(s)

• 1899 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1902 (COPAC)
• 1903 (Stewart)

Editor(s)

• Hilton, Robert

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• Contains "advertisements, editorial, our prize competitions, the art editor's page, the book of the month, some early English printers, the machine of the month, music of the month, the poster of the month, financial notes, machinery notes, stationary items, modern processes, business changes (1899)" (Waterloo Online)
• Also has "craft notes, colonial notes, American notes, continental notes, 20th century typography, specimen reviews, technical institute and class notes, advertisers' notices (1908)" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• Motto: "Fiat Lux" (journal itself, 1899)
• "We believe that many will quarrel with an arrangement which enables them to gain insight into the business side of journalism, and to learn all that is new in connection with letterpress and lithographic printing. On the other hand, journalistic items cannot fail to be of interest to the master printer, who in very many instances is a newspaper proprietor. . . . Our title has been selected for the reason that it is a comprehensive one. The Press not only embraces the fourth estate, the newspaper world, and the graphic arts, but, it also conveys a definite idea to every branch of the printing, publishing, paper, stationary and bookbinding trades. It is therefore the intention of the proprietors to provide a magazine that shall interest all. Scissors and paste will be put aside for original articles on artistic, professional, commercial and trade topics. All accepted contributions will be paid for. . . . The Press has no connection whatever with any firm of printers, publishers, typefounders, engineers, or advertising agents. It is purely a journalistic venture, and is published in the firm belief that there is ample scope for a magazine conducted on honest and independent principles. . . . The many stationers who deal in music will doubtless welcome the information contained in the Music of the Month, which will be one of the permanent features of The Press" ("Editorial," vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-4)
• From June 1920 onward, The British Stationer was published separately (as a supplement) (Waterloo Online)
• Continues publication as:
  • The Press, Paper, Printing, Bookbinding, and Stationery Chronicle (1902-02)
  • Then The Caxton Magazine and The Press (1902-04)
  • Then The Caxton Magazine and British Manufacturing, Art, and Fancy Stationer (1904-08)
  • Then The Caxton Magazine and British Stationer (1908-20)
  • Then The Caxton Magazine (1920-59)
  • It then merges with Modern Lithographer and Offset Printer in 1959
  • See Shattock (p. 53) for all these
• Publisher's address (in 1899): 139-140 Fleet St. (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Newspapers
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing History
• Printing Trade
• Publishing
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• Mitchell’s (1924) p. 237
• "Publications of the Month" 1902, p. 768
• Shattock p. 53
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 599
• Ulrich and Kup pp. 59, 89

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1924.
• "Publications of the Month." The Bookseller: A Newspaper of British and Foreign Literature, 11 Sept. 1902, p. 768. 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.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.