Start Date(s)

• 1887 (Shattock)

End Date(s)

• 1897 (Shattock)
• 1904 ()

Editor(s)

• McCoy, M. P.

City

• London, England (Review)

Notes

• This was the quarterly house organ for M. P. McCoy, agent for American type and machines (Catalogue p. 33)
• “Towards the end of 1878, Mr. M. P. McCoy . . . took up a commission to import the productions of Messrs. MacKellar, Smiths, and Jordan, of Philadelphia, and came to this country [Britain]. But not until 1879, when Mr. McCoy joined the firm of Messrs. J. L. Chaplin and Co. . . . can it be said that American type and material were brought generally before the notice of British printers” (Joyner p. 25)
• “The Typographic Chronicle is a sixteen-page, 8 by 11, periodical, published by M. P. McCoy, Phoenix Works, London, England. Mr. McCoy shows in his publication the latest faces of type handled by him, and describes the latest styles of presses and machinery for which he is agent. The work is very well printed on fine enameled stock, and tasteful treatment in its make-up” (“Review” p. 245)
• Begins a new series in March 1898; this series ends in January 1901 (Shattock p. 52)
• Publisher's address: Phoenix Place, London (BLT19 Database); or 54 Farringdon Rd., London (Mitchell's 1895, p. 235)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• "Review" p. 245
• BLT19
• Hale and King
• Joyner p. 25
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 235
• Shattock p. 52
• Stewart vol. 4, p. 362
• Waterloo (online)

Works Cited

• "Review of Specimens Received." The Inland Printer, vol. 23, no. 2, May 1899, pp. 244-46. Google Books.
• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• Hale, Ann. M., and Andrew King. "Stationery Trade Review." BLT19: Nineteenth-Century Business, Labour, Temperance, & Trade Periodicals, Aug. 2019.
• Joyner, George. Fine Printing: Its Inception, Development, and Practice. Cooper and Budd, 1895.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• 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.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.