The Stationers’ and Printers’ Annual

Subtitle: “A Trade Book of Reference”

Start Date(s)

  • 1895 (Shattock)
  • 1898 (COPAC)

End Date(s)

  • 1903 (COPAC)

Editor(s)

City

  • London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

  • "Contains notes on the trade, side shows for stationers, bookselling during the year, special articles, our advertisers, obituary of the year, trade organisations, technical education directory, technical handbooks" (Waterloo Online)
  • "The Stationers’ and Printers’ Annual Trade Book of Reference and Almanac for 1899--truly an omnibus title--is a further edition of a well-known trade Annual. Its contents are similar in style and subject to those of preceding volumes, including special articles of interest to printers, stationers, and others. Useful tabular matter, a directory of paper mills, ready reckoner, a dictionary of technical terms, and a list of named printing and writing papers may be mentioned. The purely literary section deals with such subjects as the Trade of '98, Printing Machinery during that year, Raw Material in Paper Making, New Lines for Stationers, Picture Printing in Colours, Lithography, Legal Information, Type Composition, the Point System, Fine Printing, and kindred subjects. These are useful both for reference purposes and as everyday information, and, as a whole, form an admirable record of the year's progress. A heliochrome print and a couple of half-tone supplements add to the attractions of the number. The Annual is well worth the shilling it is priced at" ("New Books" p. 43)

Notes

  • "Hail to all fellow labourers like ourselves interested in the staple and the grandest power now extant on this little ball we call the earth. That staple is, of course, paper, the rate of production and consumption of which goes up hand over hand annually, both at home and abroad. That power is the Press, which year by year becomes a more and more potent factor in the social life of our own and other civilised nations. So to all members of the trades which THE STATIONERS' AND PRINTERS' ANNUAL addresses we proffer warmest greeting and hearty wishes . . . for all trades connected with Paper and Print abundant business with a good margin of profit. The more good books, magazines, and journals well written in the true interests of humanity, well illustrated and well printed on good paper, and, above all, at prices, however low, which pay a living wage and yield a living profit--the more literature of this kind, the better for the world" (vol. 5, 1899, p. 9)
  • "The Stationers' and Printers' Annual and Trade Book of Reference is edited by J. S. Morriss, and published by Charles Letts & Co., price 1/0 nett. It is an exceedingly good compendium of many things useful to the printer and stationer. In the current issue there are half tone supplements from blocks by A. Bourne & Co. (from yachting picture by George West & Sons), the Art Reproduction Co., and a colored supplement from blocks by John Swain & Son, Ltd." ("The Stationers’" p. 46)
  • Publisher's address (Letts, in 1899): 22 Tabernacle St., London (The British Printer, vol. 12, p. 265)

Subject Categories

Sources that Discuss this Journal

  • COPAC
  • English Catalogue p. 934
  • NSTC
  • "New Books" (1899) p. 43
  • Shattock p. 52
  • "The Stationers' and Printers' Annual" p. 46
  • Stewart vol. 4, p. 221
  • Ulrich and Kup p. 187
  • Waterloo (online)
  • Watson p. 84

Works Cited

  • COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
  • The English Catalogue of Books. Vol. 5. Sampson Low, 1898. Google Books.
  • "New Books." The British Printer, vol. 12, no. 67, Jan.-Feb. 1899, p. 43. 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.
  • "The Stationers' and Printers' Annual and Trade Book of Reference." The Process Photogram and Illustrator, vol. 63, Mar. 1899, pp. 46. Google Books.
  • 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.
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