The Printers' Friend
Subtitle: “A Quarterly for Printers and Stationers”
Alternate Title(s)
- The Printers' Friend and Stationers' Circular (COPAC)
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Circulation Count
- 6000 per number in 1881 (The Waterloo Directory (online))
Type of Content
• Advertisement sheet with extracts from various printing-trade journals (Bigmore and Wyman 2:184)
• stationary notes, novelties, advertisements (1880); reviews (no 2 1881); notes on printing specimens, American stationery novelties, notes on publications received (no 3 1881); printing notes (no 5 1882) (Waterloo Directory)Notes
- "The object of THE PRINTER'S FRIEND is to make a humble effort to raise the character of illustration as employed in ordinary commercial work. With this view, we shall devote our close attention to the production of new and improved designs for printers. The expense of a wood engraving is obvious, and it is to provide printers with a ready and economical method of illustrating trade work, that we hope to enjoy a useful and successful repute. Any design based upon an original idea can be put in hand, submitted for approval, and, finally, electors supplied at a nominal rate, of course, on the understanding that the design becomes our property. We publish in The Printer's Friend, specimens of various designs for paper bags, tobacco-papers, &c., &c., electors of which can be obtained from us or Mr. Frederick Ullmer, at any time. . . . We must not forget to call the attention of all our readers to the advertisements in this issue. These are announcements from firms of high standing, whose goods and reputation can always be relied upon" ("To Our Readers," vol. 1, no. 2, p. 1)
- Shattock says this ends in June 1883 with no. 8 (Shattock 52)
- Publisher's address: 5 Ludgate Circus Buildings (1880) (journal itself)
- Becomes The Printers' Friend and Stationers' Circular in 1882 (COPAC)
Subject Categories
Sources that Discuss this Journal
- Bigmore and Wyman 2:184; 3:604; 52; 117; 3:61; 1887:460
Works Cited
- Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
