Related Journals

• Typographical Protection Circular
  • This journal became the Typographical Protection Circular in 1849 and ran through 1853
• Typographical Circular [London]
  • It became the Typographical Circular [London, not Manchester] in 1854 and continued under this title until 1858
• London Press Journal and General Trades Advocate
  • It then became the London Press Journal and General Trades' Advocate (November 1858 through January 1859)
• Printers’ Journal and Typographical Magazine
  • It was revived in 1865 as the Printers' Journal and Typographical Magazine (until 1867)

Start Date(s)

• 1846 (Bigmore and Wyman)

End Date(s)

• 1847 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Strange, William

City

• London, England (Bigmore and Wyman)

Type of Content

• "Concerned with wages disputes. Promotes the newly-formed National Typographical Association. Extensive correspondence and news on working conditions and disputes" (Harrison p. 563)

Notes

• “We have only a few numbers of this periodical, and there is no copy of it in the British Museum. It devoted a large portion of its space to the wages disputes which were in existence at the time of its publication, and generally espoused the cause of the workmen” (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 193)
• "Printers established for themselves an effective lobbying system by means of this publication" (Jones p. 14)
• This journal was "revived in 1849 as the Typographical Protection Circular (1849-53), relaunched as the Typographical Circular (1854-58), then run as the short lived fortnightly London Press Journal and General Trades' Advocate (Nov. 1858-Jan. 1859), and succeeded by The Printers' Journal and Typographical Magazine (1865-67)" (Finkelstein p. 111)
• Publisher's address (W. M. Clark & Co.): 16-17 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London (Bookseller 1859, 1865)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, p. 142
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 193
• Finkelstein p. 111
• Harrison et al. p. 563
• James p. 33
• Jones p. 14
• Score p. 275
• Shattock p. 51
• St. Bride (online)
• Stewart vol. 4, p 362
• Ulrich and Kup p. 200

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.
• Finkelstein, David. Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World. Oxford UP, 2018.
• Harrison, Royden, G. B. Woolven, and Robert Duncan. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check-List. Humanities P, 1977.
• James, Louis. Fiction for the Working Man 1830-1850: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England. Penguin, 1974.
• Jones, Aled. Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England. Ashgate, 1996.
• Score, Melissa. “Pioneers of Social Progress?: Gender and Technology in British Printing Trade Union Journals, 1840–65.” Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 47 no. 2, 2014, pp. 274-95. Project MUSE.
• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.
• St. Bride Foundation Catalogue, St. Bride Library, 2022.
• Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.