Related Journals

• Fancy Trades Register and Trade Circular for Stationers, Printers, Binders, Music, Toy, & Pianoforte Dealers and Manufacturers, etc.
  • The Stationer and Papermakers’, Printers’, and Bookbinders’ Circular briefly ran as The Fancy Trades Register and Trade Circular for Stationers, Printers, Binders, Music, Toy, & Pianoforte Dealers and Manufacturers, etc. in 1865
• Stationer and Fancy Trades’ Register
  • It quickly evolved into The Stationer and Fancy Trades’ Register in 1865
• Stationer, Printer & Fancy Trades’ Register
  • The Stationer and Fancy Trades’ Register became The Stationer, Printer, & Fancy Trades’ Register in July of 1880

Start Date(s)

• 1859 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1865 (Stewart)
• 1912 (Brock)

Editor(s)

• Phillips, S. Charles

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• Contains (in 1859): "trade notes of the month, Board of Trade statistics, new inventions, notices from the gazettes, sales by auction, notes and queries, answers to correspondents, advertisements" (Waterloo Online)
• "Supplements accompany some issues" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• This is a "trades circular" (Brock p. 116)
• "Obviously, a most successful formula had been discovered, and the proprietor of The Ironmonger (as Morgans' Circular was aptly re-titled), and others, quickly saw that it could be applied to other trades--hence The Stationer (1859-1912)" (Brock p. 116)
• Evolution of titles (all of which are Dean & Son publications):
  • The Stationer and Papermakers’, Printers’, and Bookbinders’ Circular (1859-1865)
  • The Fancy Trades Register and Trade Circular for Stationers, Printers, Binders, Music, Toy, & Pianoforte Dealers and Manufacturers, etc. (1865-1865)
  • The Stationer and Fancy Trades’ Register (1865-1880)
  • The Stationer, Printer, and Fancy Trades’ Register (1880-1912)
• Publisher's address (in 1859): 7 Beaufort Buildings, Strand (journal itself)

Subject Categories

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

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• Brock p. 116
• Collins p. 225
• Hubbard vol. 2, p. 1705
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 78
• Sell 1887, p. 463, 1112
• Shattock p. 85
• Smith's p. 391
• Stewart vol. 4, p. 221
• Waterloo (online)
• Willing’s 1891, vol. 18, p. 109

Works Cited

• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• Brock, W. H. "The Development of Commercial Science Journals." The Development of Science Publishing in Europe, edited by A. J. Meadows. Elsevier Science P, 1980, pp. 95-122.
• Collins, Louis. "The English Stationer." The Advertisers' Guardian, no. 2. London, 1885, p. 225. Google Books.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.