The Printer’s Engineer
Subtitle: "A Record of Events and Inventions Connected with the Printing Trade"
Alternate Title(s)
- Printers’, Box Makers’ and Bookbinders’ Engineer and Furnisher (Ulrich and Kup)
Start Date(s)
End Date(s)
Editor(s)
Printer/Publisher(s)
City
- London, England (journal itself)
Type of Content
- Contains free advertisements, editorial notes, and articles (vol. 1, no. 1, Sept. 1895, pp. 1-2)
- "Made in England, a word to the wise, guard your machinery, competency of enginemen, situations wanted, for disposal, wanted for purchase, our note-book" (Waterloo Online)
Notes
- "Trade technical journal" (Waterloo p. 874)
- House organ of Usher-Walker, Ltd. (Ulrich & Kup p. 60)
- "We are a band of brothers--Walker Bros.--who are tolerably well known throughout the Printing World, and the business we carry on is, and has been for many years, very successful; but we desire to make ourselves better known, and to extend our business and make it more successful than it has ever been, and it is for this purpose that The Printer's Engineer has been conceived and brought forth...To aid us in our business, to widen and extend our connections, to bring us into closer relation with all classes of printers, were, therefore, the primary objects we had in view when we conceived the idea of this journal. . . But if these were the primary ends, they were not the only aims we had in view. There were other objects before us when we contemplated the issue of The Printer's Engineer which were, nevertheless, matters of importance and value. It occurred to us that while The Printer's Engineer would become a valuable and necessary adjunct to our business, it might at the same time be made a practical and ready medium of communication between Printer and Printer; between our customers one with another. . . A copy of each issue of The Printer's Engineer will be sent to every printer in the United Kingdom. . . In furtherance of this scheme of bringing printers in communication with each other, we have prepared the following system of Free Advertisements: Any printer desiring to dispose of some of his machinery can place an announcement in the columns of The Printer's Engineer. Should the machinery or plant remain unsold, no charge will be made by us, and no liability whatever will be incurred by the advertiser. . . But we are not simply Printers' Engineers, and our business is not strictly confined to Engineering; we are also prepared to act as Printers' Valuers'. . . The Editorial Notes and articles will be written by practical men who have the mechanics and the technicalities of the Printing Trade at their finger-ends" (vol. 1, no. 1, Sept. 1895, pp. 1-2)
Subject Categories
Issues
Sources that Discuss this Journal
- British Museum Catalogue p. 114
- Brown and Stratton vol. 2, p. 1095
- COPAC
- Shattock p. 52
- Stewart vol. 3, p. 604
- Ulrich and Kup p. 60, 101, 207
- Wolff et al. p. 874
Works Cited
- 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.
- 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.
- Wolff, Michael, Dorothy Deering, John S. North, Waterloo Computing in the Humanities, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900: Phase I. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 1976.
