Alternate Subtitle(s)

• "A Monthly Record of Matters of Interest to Manufacturers and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Articles Connected with the Various Branches of Trade in Paper, Printing, &c." (Bigmore and Wyman)

Start Date(s)

• 1880 (Bigmore and Wyman)
• 1859 (NSTC )

End Date(s)

• 1921 (Stewart)
• 1882 (COPAC)
• 1939 (NSTC )

Editor(s)

• Whitaker, Joseph (Whitaker & Sons, Ltd.)
• Whitaker, Joseph Vernon (Whitaker & Sons, Ltd.)
• Whitaker, George Herbert (Whitaker & Sons, Ltd.)

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Circulation Count

• 6,000 (in 1882) (Hubbard)

Type of Content

• "A monthly record of the trades connected with paper, account books, artists' materials, fine art publications, music, leather goods and fancy stationery" (Waterloo Online)
• “Devotes a considerable portion of its space to printing-trade matters” (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 190)

Notes

• "For manufacturers, wholesale, and retail dealers" (Mitchell's 1895, p. 233)
• "In 1880, in conjunction with his father [Joseph Whitaker], he [Joseph Vernon Whitaker] started the Stationery Trades' Journal" (Tedder and Coohill)
• "The Stationery Trades' Journal is published about the middle of each month. It is designed to furnish a descriptive record of the latest novelties in every branch of plain and fancy stationery, and of the various matters of personal or trade interest which from time to time may arise. As trade prices are continually quoted in its notices and advertisements, it is supplied only to actual members of the trade" (Hubbard vol. 1, p. 914)
• Publisher's address (Whitaker & Sons) in 1887: 12 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row (journal itself)

Subject Categories

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

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 77, p. 118
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 190
• COPAC
• Hubbard vol. 1, p. 914; vol. 2, p. 1705
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 233
• NSTC
• Sell 1887, p. 463
• Shattock p. 86
• Stewart vol. 4, p. 222
• Tedder and Coohill

Works Cited

• “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.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• 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.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• Tedder, H. R., and Joseph Coohill. "Whitaker, Joseph (1820–1895), publisher." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford UP, 2020. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.