Related Journals

• Stationery Trade Review & Booksellers’ Journal
  • Title changed to The Stationery Trade Review and Booksellers’ Journal (1884-1888)
• Stationery and Bookselling
  • Title then changed to Stationery and Bookselling (1888-1891), published by J. S. Morriss in London
• Stationery, Bookselling, and Fancy Goods
  • 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.
• Morriss’s Trade Journal
  • This evolved into Morriss's Trade Journal (1897-1903), published by Morriss & Birch
• The British Empire Paper, Stationery and Printing Trades Journal
  • Ends up as The British Empire Paper, Stationery and Printing Trades Journal (May 1903 to June 1913)

Start Date(s)

• 1881 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1884 (journal itself)
• 1887 (Shattock)
• 1888 (Willing’s)

Editor(s)

• Glass, James
• Lang, Andrew
• Morriss, Job Shufflebottom

City

• Edinburgh, Scotland (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 300 (Shattock)

Type of Content

• Contains "bills of sale, notices of new goods/ books, trade scraps, local notes, notes from subscribers, letters to the editor, business changes and announcements, trade recipes, obituary, Endymion, American notes, odds and ends, advertisements" (Waterloo Online)
• "Regular departments included: the State of the Trade, Notices of New Goods, Notices of New Books, Letters to the Editor, the Gazette, which announced new companies and business failures, and Law Reports" (Hale and King)

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
• "The January number of the Stationery Trade Review has been issued in a greatly improved form. The size has been considerably enlarged, and the literary contents are such as cannot but be of interest to those to whom its pages are specially addressed. The Review, which has just commenced the second year of its existence, instead of being brought out monthly, as hitherto, will in future be issued every alternate month. Messrs. Ormiston and Glass, of Elder-street, Edinburgh, are the publishers" ("The Bibliography" 1882, p. 48)
• "The Stationery Trade Review was a trade journal launched in Edinburgh in January 1881 to serve the needs of the stationery, leather, and fancy goods trades in the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It was published by Ormiston & Glass, a wholesale stationer, fancy-goods dealer, and publisher with locations in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The publisher felt that existing publications aimed at the stationery business focused far too much on London and not enough on the needs of businesses outside of the metropolis. In its first year, the Stationery Trade Review was published monthly. At the beginning of the second year of publication, however, a number of changes were made: 1) the page dimensions were increased; 2) additional pages were added; 3) the periodicity changed from monthly (12 issues per year) to every alternate month (6 issues per year); and 4) the cost of an annual subscription was decreased. The Stationery Trade Review sought to provide provincial businesspeople with the latest news about the trade and new product developments because, 'Fancy Stationery must be had piping hot, or it is not worth having at all'" (Hale and King)
• "Articles outside of departments tended to be excerpted from other trade and popular publications, and the subject matter combined histories of the trade, legal topics, entertaining stories and anecdotes related to the trade, and other materials designed to inform and educate businesspeople about developments in technology, products, and business practices. While the journal professed to focus on northern England, Scotland, and Ireland, the articles situate the trade in a global framework, providing information on everything from copyright in various international jurisdictions to paper consumption in several areas around the globe" (Hale and King)
• "The printer, G. D. Stewart, and stand-in editor, Andrew Lang, were put in charge while the Stationery Trade Review’s proprietor/publisher/editor, James Glass, was travelling in Australia [in 1887]" (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)
• Publisher's address (Smith & Co.) in 1891: 165 Queen Victoria Street, London (journal itself)
• Publisher's address (Morriss & Birch) in 1905: 13 Paternoster Row (BLT19); 57-59 Ludgate Hill (Mitchell's 1905, p. 255)

Subject Categories

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

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• Bateson p. 101
• “The Bibliography” 1882, vol. 13, p. 48
• COPAC
• Hale and King
• Hubbard vol. 2, p. 1764
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 78
• Mitchell’s 1905 p. 255
• Sell 1887, p. 463
• Shattock p. 86
• Smith's p. 382, 589
• Stewart vol. 4, p. 222
• Willing’s 1891, p. 109, 240

Works Cited

• Bateson, Frederick Wilse. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 3: 1800-1900. Series editor George Watson. Cambridge UP, 1969.
• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• 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.
• Hubbard, Harlan P. Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World. Hubbard, 1882-84. 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.
• Sell, Henry. Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press. Sell’s Advertising Agency, 1883-1915. Google Books.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• Smith's Advertising Agency, London. Successful Advertising: Its Secrets Explained by Smith's Advertising Agency. Smith's Advertising Agency, 1902. HathiTrust.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.