Related Journals

• Stationery Trade Review
  • This journal was begun as The Stationery Trade Review (1881-1884)
• Stationery and Bookselling
  • It became Stationery and Bookselling (1888-1891)
• Stationery, Bookselling, and Fancy Goods
  • Stationery and Bookselling merged with the Fancy Goods and Toy Trades Journal to become Stationery, Bookselling, and Fancy Goods (1891-1897)
• Morriss’s Trade Journal
  • Stationery, Bookselling, and Fancy Goods was bought out and turned into Morriss's Trade Journal (1897-1903)

Start Date(s)

• 1884 (Willing’s)

End Date(s)

• 1888 (Willing’s)

Editor(s)

• Glass, James
• Lang, Andrew

Printer/Publisher(s)

• James Denholm & Co.

City

• Edinburgh, Scotland (journal itself)

Notes

• This journal evolved considerably, changing its name, publishers, and editors (also correspondingly changing its length, size, frequency, and cost):
  • It began as The Stationery Trade Review (1881-1884), published by Ormiston & Glass in Edinburgh
  • It became The Stationery Trade Review and Booksellers' Journal (1884-1888), also published by Ormiston & Glass but every other month
  • This became Stationery and Bookselling (1888-1891), published by J. S. Morriss in London
  • This became Stationery, Bookselling, and Fancy Goods (in 1888, according to Shattock p. 86; COPAC has 1891, which is more likely correct), published by J. Smith & Co.
  • This evolved into Morriss's Trade Journal (1897-1903), published by Morriss & Birch
  • This became The British Empire Paper, Stationery, and Printing Trades Journal (1903-1913), continued by Morriss & Birch
  • I've drawn this information from the sources listed below
• Andrew Lang briefly edited and managed the journal in 1887 while James Glass was traveling in Australia (Hale and King)
• Publisher's address (Ormiston & Glass) in 1884: 8 Elder Street, Edinburgh (journal itself)
• Publisher's address (James Denholm & Co.) in 1887: 18 Elder Street, Edinburgh (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Book Trade & Bookselling
• Book Trade News
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade

Issues

• STR & Booksellers’ Journal 7.1 (Jan. 1887)
• STR & Booksellers’ Journal 7.2 (Mar. 1887)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• Hale and King
• Sell 1887, p. 463
• Waterloo (online)
• Willing’s 1891, p. 109, 240

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Hale, Ann. M., and Andrew King. "Stationery Trade Review." BLT19: Nineteenth-Century Business, Labour, Temperance, & Trade Periodicals, Aug. 2019.
• Sell, Henry. Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press. Sell’s Advertising Agency, 1883-1915. 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.