The Typographical Protection Circular
Subtitle: “A Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Printing Profession”
Related Journals
Start Date(s)
End Date(s)
Editor(s)
City
- London, England (Bigmore and Wyman)
Type of Content
- "Reports LSC [London Society of Compositors] meetings, trade news, provincial intelligence. Correspondence, discussion on strikes, trade unions, 'free' (i.e. unstamped) press" (Harrison p. 563)
- "Contains reports of the Typographical Association, London and provincial branches, and correspondence. Support for ‘wages increases and modification of the scale’" (Harrison p. 563)
Notes
- Because of the break in publishing, Score treats The Typographical Circular as a new journal, distinct from the Typographical Protection Circular: "[Its] launch was a response to inquiries ‘for some medium of intercommunication’ that would link the metropolis and the provinces: “It is imperatively necessary that printers in general should have an opportunity of knowing, and calmly discussing, matters which may have a vital effect upon the welfare of the trade whereby they obtain their livelihood”’” (Score p. 275)
- Early on it supported trade union networks but the focus shifted to "'uniting to safeguard the terms and conditions of the craft’" (Score p. 277-78)
- "Having expressed, at some length, in our prospectus, what are our desires and purpose, we have thought we might more appropriately devote the little space at our disposal by diffusing as much general information into our first number, than if we were to lay before our readers a lengthened address, so common in commencing a new publication. . . . There is, however, one request which must be urged, because it is paramount of all others. . . . It is no other than to obtain ONE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS, or names of persons to whom we can regularly send the Circular, or who will assure us that they intend to be its purchasers" (vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1849, p. ?)
- "We have not a complete file of this journal, and there are no copies at the British Museum. The 57th number was published in September, 1853. The paper was devoted to printing-trade news, and supported the workmen in their various movements for increase of wages and modifications of the scale. We have no record of the date of the discontinuance of the paper" (Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 193)
Subject Categories
Sources that Discuss this Journal
- “The Bibliography” vol. 7, p. 142
- Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 193
- COPAC
- Gillespie p. 27
- Harrison et al. p. 563
- Score p. 275, 277-78
- Shattock p. 51
- Stewart vol. 4,, p. 362
- Waterloo (online)
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.
- Gillespie, Sarah C. A Hundred Years of Progress: The Record of the Scottish Typographical Association, 1853 to 1952. Robert MacLehose and Co., 1953.
- Harrison, Royden, G. B. Woolven, and Robert Duncan. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check-List. Humanities P, 1977.
- 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.
- 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.
