Alternate Title(s)

• Paper Consumers' Circular (Hubbard)

Start Date(s)

• 1879 (Bateson)
• 1878 (Hubbard)

End Date(s)

• 1882 (Bateson)

Editor(s)

• Roland, Ladelle, & Co.

City

• London, England (Bigmore and Wyman)

Circulation Count

• 10,000 (monthly edition); 3,000 (weekly edition) (Hubbard)

Type of Content

• "Contains a large amount of matter (chiefly copied from other journals) relating to printing" ("The Bibliography" p. 92)
• Contains a small amount of matter (chiefly copied without acknowledgement from other journals) relating to printing (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 182)

Notes

• "Intended as an advertising medium for a wholesale stationery firm by whom it is published" (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 182)
• Hubbard lists this title as both a weekly and a monthly, with different prices (1d for weekly, free for monthly) and circulation stats (3,000 for weekly, 10,000 for monthly) (Hubbard 1882, p. 1649, 1699)
• "Text is chiefly advertising matter; each leaf is a sample of different kinds of paper sold by the publisher, with price list" (WorldCat entry)
• No. 1 may not have been published; all libraries with copies begin with no. 2 (1 March 1879), although Shattock at Bateson list 22 February 1879 as the date of the first number

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Bateson vol. 1, p. 73
• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, p. 92
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 182
• COPAC
• Hubbard 1882, p. 1649, 1699
• Shattock p. 9
• Waterloo (online)

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.
• Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Hubbard, Harlan P. Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World. Hubbard, 1882-84. Google Books.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.