Start Date(s)

• 1891 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1911 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Bassett, John
• Jones, George William

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• Covers printing, bookbinding, process engraving, screen process, lithography, newspaper production and allied engineering trades (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• Do not confuse with the journal of the same name that ran from 1954-2009 (Brown and Stratton vol. 2, p. 1096)
• Editor was John Bassett until his death in 1893; the journal was taken over by George W. Jones (Willing's 1907, p. 154)
• "In this country there is room for a thoroughly practical paper, worked on similar lines to the principal printing journals in the United States. The Printing World has received most liberal support from advertisers, and if subscribers will only respond in a like manner, I promise them a paper that shall be second to none for its practical matter, and a legitimate circulation far ahead of any other existing journal. Agents are wanted for every town in the Kingdom, to whom a liberal commission will be given. As practical printers you will all know the difficulties attending the issuing of first numbers, but I have no doubt you will agree with me that a start has been made in the right direction. The contributors are all practical men, even to the editor, who also claims this modest distinction. I now leave The Printing World on its merits" (signed John Bassett) ("To Printers," vol. 1, no. 1, p. 17)
• Publisher's address (Allen, in 1891): 63 Chancery Lane (Index); Ave Maria Lane in 1895 (Mitchell's p. 229); St. Bride House, Dean Street, Fetter Lane in 1905 (BLT19 Database)

Subject Categories

• Book Arts
• Book History
• Commercial Art
• Design
• Illustration
• Lithography
• Newspapers
• Printing History
• Printing Trade

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• Brown and Stratton vol. 2, p. 1096
• COPAC
• Index p. 22
• Mitchell’s 1895 p, 229
• Mitchell’s 1905 p. 281
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 52
• Stewart vol. 3, p. 605
• Ulrich and Kup p. 61
• Waterloo (online)
• Watson p. 61
• Willing’s 1907, p. 154

Works Cited

• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• 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.
• Index to the Periodical Literature of the World (Covering the Year 1893). The Review of Reviews, 1894. Google Books.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1905.
• 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.
• 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.
• Watson, George, series editor. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 5 vols. Cambridge UP, 1969.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.