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Publication Date and Frequency

• Spring
• 1884 (journal itself)
• quarterly (Bigmore and Wyman)

Issue Editor(s)

• William Hailing (journal itself)

Printer/Publisher Information

• Oxford Printing Works (journal itself) Cheltenham, England

Paper Size and Number of Pages

• 33cm (COPAC)
• 7 pages (journal itself)

Price

• free for a single issue (journal itself)
• 1s (in 1889) for a year

Notes

• Note that although this journal announces in its header that it is published quarterly, it actually comes out roughly twice a year
• This issue no longer lists William Hailing as editor. His name remains absent until vol. 2, no. 19 (Spring 1886), in which Thomas Hailing prints an obituary titled "In Memoriam." In this, Thomas states that "since the last issue of the Circular, our brother, William Hailing, has been gathered to his fathers" (75). The article goes on to quote from an obituary in Press News which explains that William "continued on and off at his post [as editor of Hailing's] until about three years ago, when he was compelled to give up work altogether" (75). William died of tuberculosis "after an illness of over sixteen years' duration" on 20 January 1886 (75).

Sources that Discuss This Issue

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 75, p. 65
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 171
• COPAC
• Hubbard p. 1589
• NSTC
• Shattock p. 52
• Stewart vol. 2, p. 363
• Ulrich and Kup p. 204
• Willing’s 1891, p. 48

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.
• Hubbard, Harlan P. Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World. Hubbard, 1882-84. Google Books.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• 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.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.