The Printing Times

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Start Date(s)

  • 1873 (“The Bibliography”)
  • 1869 (Willing’s)

End Date(s)

  • 1874 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

City

  • London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

  • Contains (in 1873): to our readers, topics of the month, the provinces, newspaper and historical press, the typographer, the lithographer, the engraver, the letter founder, the stationer, the bookbinder, the publisher, correspondence, legal, new inventions, trade changes, obituaries, b/w etchings, b/w engravings, and colour lithographs (Waterloo Online)

Notes

  • Motto: "Knowledge is Power" (journal itself, 1873)
  • "Its aim: The most practical Printers' Journal yet published--'An aim that has become a tradition'" ("The Printing Times" p. xxxii)
  • The Printing Times and Lithographer lists all of the separate issues of both The Printing Times and The Lithographer ("The Bibliography" vol. 7, p. 117)
  • "An illustrated, technical, and fine-art journal of Typography, Lithography, Paper-making, and the auxiliary trades" (May's 1875, p. 135)
  • "The Printing Times is launched because it is thought that it will supply a well-defined and long-felt want. We have no disparaging word to say of our trade contemporaries. They fulfil, and fulfil ably, a distinct function of their own, with which we have no desire to interfere. But we believe -- and we have abundant reason to know that we are not alone in the belief -- that an independent journal is required which shall, so to speak, draw all the various branches of the Printing trade into one focus, and become not only their record of events, but their organ of intercommunication on all trade topics" ("To Our Readers" vol. 1, no. 1, 1873, p. 1)
  • "We shall spare no effort to make The Printing Times a complete and trustworthy monthly compendium of trade news from all parts of the world. We shall deal with all questions which may arise, either between any of the various branches of the trade, or within any given branch itself, with all fairness and frankness. Moreover we shall willingly throw open our columns to the full and free discussion of all such questions by the parties who are more or less immediately interested in them. . . . Having said this much, we retire at once into the obscurity of the editorial impersonality" (vol. 1, no. 1, 1873)
  • "A new series begins in 1875 and continues to 1900; however, the new series issues are also numbered according to the old series. May cites a start date of 1869 indicating the likelihood of an earlier series or title" (Waterloo Online)
  • Publisher's address (Alfred Gadsby) in 1873: 18 Bouverie St., London

Subject Categories

Sources that Discuss this Journal

  • "The Printing Times"
  • “The Bibliography” vol. 7, p. 117
  • COPAC
  • May's 1875, p. 11, 135
  • Shattock p. 52
  • St. Bride (online)
  • Stewart vol. 3, p. 605
  • Ulrich and Kup p. 57, 87
  • Waterloo (online)

Works Cited

  • "The Printing Times and Lithographer." The Process Yearbook, vol. 2, 1896, p. xxxii. Hathitrust.
  • “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.
  • May's London Press Dictionary and Advertiser's Handbook, edited by Frederick May. Frederick May Publishing, 1871-90. 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, St. Bride Library, 2022.
  • 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.
  • The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.
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