Start Date(s)

• 1844 (Waterloo (online))

End Date(s)

• 1895 (Waterloo (online))
• 1902 ()

Editor(s)

• Ullmer, Frederick

City

• London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

• "Specimens of the latest novelties in type/borders/ornaments/etc., list of new machinery/ presses/ materials for printers and bookbinders, trade notes" (Waterloo Online)

Notes

• "A type founders' journal" (Sell's p. 496)
• “This is published quarterly, and contains Specimens of the Latest Novelties in Type, Borders, Ornaments, etc., both English and American; also list of New Machinery, Presses, and Materials for Printers and Bookbinders, and Trade Notes, etc.; good list of Second-hand articles on Sale. The above is Posted Free to all known Printers in the United Kingdom. Should anyone not receive it a copy shall be sent on receipt of business card. No. 9 was published in September” (Sell’s p. 1245)
• "An interesting 16pp house journal, concerned mainly with the various lines produced at the ‘Standard Works.’ Printed in a dark-blue ink throughout" (#ullmerscircular)
• Publisher's address: Cross St., Farringdon Rd. (Mitchell's 1895, p. 242, journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Printing Trade
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• #Ullmerscircular
• COPAC
• Mitchell’s 1895 p. 78
• Sell p. 465, 496, 1245
• Waterloo (online)
• Willing’s 1884, p. 194

Works Cited

• "#Ullmerscircular Instagram Posts."
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• 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.
• 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.