Start Date(s)

• 1879 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1879 (Shattock)
• 1881 ()

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Alfred George

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 3,000 in 1881 (Hubbard)

Notes

• “A working-class representative organ” ("The Bibliography" vol. 7, p. 117)
• “Printing and allied interests” (Hubbard's 1882, p. 1703)
• Shattock says this journal terminated in 1879, but in 1881, Bigmore and Wyman's "Bibliography" lists the journal as "in process"
• “It has often been a matter of surprise that in the Printing Trade and its offshoots no organ is in existence representing the interests of the working portion of the trade; all questions affecting their rights and interests being argued from one side only, the other side having no power of refutation. . . . There are many earnest-thinking men who, while unwilling to give expression to their ideas at Trade Meetings, would gladly and willingly do so by means of such an organ as this. . . .  It must also be evident that there exists a great want of knowledge concerning the rules and principles of the various associations connected with the Printing Trade, as well as a great amount of apathy amongst the general body of their Members. . . . Our whole and soul object, therefore, will be to create more unity, more interest, more knowledge, and a greater amount of energy amongst the whole of the Members of the Printing and kindred Trades” (“Address to Our Readers,” vol. 1, no. 1, p. 6)
• Publisher's address (Alfred George): 7 Castle St. East, Oxford St., London (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions

Issues

• The Printing Review 1.1 (7 Jan. 1879)
• The Printing Review 1.2 (7 Feb. 1879)
• The Printing Review 1.3 (7 Mar. 1879)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol, 7, no. 77, p. 117
• COPAC
• Hubbard 1882, p. 1703
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 52
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 605

Works Cited

• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Hubbard, Harlan P. Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World. Hubbard, 1882-84. Google Books.
• 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.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.