Alternate Subtitle(s)

• A Weekly Record of Typography, Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts (Bigmore and Wyman)

Start Date(s)

• 1865 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1869 (Bigmore and Wyman)
• 1867 ()

Editor(s)

• Newsagents’ Publishing Company, Ltd.

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Elijah Cornish

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• "Containing articles of interest to printers" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• Original series ran 1865-1867 (2 vols); new series ran 1868-1869 (3 vols) (NSTC)
• Motto taken from Goethe: "Duty be thy polar guide / Do the right, whate'er betide; -- / Haste not rest not -- conflicts past, / God shall crown thy work at last" (vol. 1, no. 1, 2 Jan. 1865, p. 1)
• From the opening address: "Our chief duties will be to chronicle the progress of the various departments of typography so far as art itself is concerned, register the current state of business, report the proceedings of our trade and benefit societies, urge the necessity of proper ventilation and improved sanitary arrangements in our workrooms, point out the indispensability of recreation and manly exercise as conservative of health and afford to printers themselves the opportunity of discussing and ventilating those arrangements which may be most beneficial for them to adopt in the development of their various institutions" ("Address," vol. 1, no. 1, 2 Jan. 1865, p. 1)
• Co-published by Cornish and The Newsagents' Publishing Co. (journal itself)
• Publisher's address (Cornish, in 1865): 11-12 Red Lion Court, Holborn (journal itself)
• Publisher's address (Newsagents', in 1865): 146 Fleet St., London (journal itself)
• Printer's address (James Humphries, in 1865): 26 Brydges St., Covent Garden (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Typography

Issues

• Printers’ Journal and Typographical Magazine 1.1 (2 Jan. 1865)
• Printers’ Journal and Typographical Magazine 1.2 (16 Jan. 1865)
• Printers’ Journal and Typographical Magazine 1.3 (6 Feb. 1865)
• Printers’ Journal and Typographical Magazine 1.4 (20 Feb. 1865)
• Printers’ Journal and Typographical Magazine 1.5 (6 Mar. 1865)
• Printers’ Journal and Typographical Magazine 1.6 (20 Mar. 1865)
• Printers’ Journal and Typographical Magazine 1.7 (3 Apr. 1865)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, p. 117
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 185
• COPAC
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 51
• St. Bride (online)
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 604
• 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.
• 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.