Alternate Title(s)

• Printing Year-Book and Diary (Willing’s)

Start Date(s)

• 1899 (Shattock)
• 1898 (Willing’s)
• 1900 (British Museum Catalogue)

End Date(s)

• 1903 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Bridges, Frederick W.

City

• London, England (Shattock)

Notes

• A copy of the ‘Printers’ Year Book and Diary for 1900,’ intended for newspaper proprietors, master printers, printers, engineers, papermakers, stationers, bookbinders, engravers, etc., published by the Press & Printers’ Year Book Publishing Company, London, England, has been received by THE INLAND PRINTER. The work is an attractively bound book, containing spaces for daily memoranda and numerous articles of benefit to printers and others. A large amount of other valuable literary matter makes the book almost invaluable to printers” (“Books and Periodicals, 1900” p. 880)
• “The Printers’ Year-Book and Diary, Published by the Printers’ Year-Book and Diary Publishing Company, 139 and 140, Fleet-street, E.C. Besides a useful diary, there several readable articles on printers’ work, illustrating processes, &c., quotations from official and Parliamentary regulations applicable to printers, and many hints to young printers. It is surprising to be told that this is the first printers’ year-book; one would have thought that printers would have supplied such a want long ago” (“Year Books” p. 109)
• F. W. Bridges, the publisher and perhaps editor, also became publisher/editor of The British Stationer, The Caxton Magazine, and The Modern Lithographer. He also served as the organizer of the Printing, Stationery, and Allied Trades Exhibition in London in 1924 ("Registration--Men" p. 145)
• Publisher's address (in 1899): 139-140 Fleet St., London (“Year Books” p. 109)

Subject Categories

• Almanack
• Printing Trade

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• "Year Books" p. 109
• “Books and Periodicals, 1900” p. 880
• British Museum Catalogue p. 782
• COPAC
• “Registration—Men” p. 145
• Shattock p. 53
• St. Bride Catalogue (print) p. 739
• Waterloo (online)
• Willing’s 1900, p. 132
• Willing’s 1902, p. 231, 253

Works Cited

• “Books and Periodicals.” The Inland Printer, vol. 24, no. 6, Mar. 1900, pp. 879-80. Google Books.
• British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, Supplement: Newspapers Published in Great Britain and Ireland 1801-1900. Clowes & Sons, 1905.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• “Registration—Men.” Office Appliances, vol. 40, Nov. 1924, p. 145. Google Books.
• 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 of the Technical Reference Library of Works on Printing and the Allied Arts. Governors, 1919. Google Books.
• 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.
• “Year Books and Annuals.” Engineering, vol. 67, 27 Jan. 1899, p. 108. Google Books.