Start Date(s)

• 1895 (COPAC)

End Date(s)

• 1914 (Shattock)
• 1913 (“The Work”)

Editor(s)

• Maxwell, Theodore

City

• London, England

Type of Content

• Printing advice and print samples

Notes

• “Circulated privately amongst members of the Amateur Printers' Association” (journal title page)
• Associated with the “Amateur Printers’ Association for Mutual Help and Encouragement” (Willing's vol. 27, p. 421)
• “A quarterly specimen exchange for members” (Willing's vol. 27, p. 421)
• “Amateur Printing: A Journal and Specimen Exchange was an amateur printing publication born when hobby printing was at its peak in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The introduction of table-top vertical platen presses such as the ‘Model’ in the mid-1870s opened up the letterpress printing process to almost everyone and, by 1895, these presses were popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Many of the contributors to The Amateur Printing Journal were vicars and priests. Each page was produced by a different amateur printer, resulting in different typefaces throughout the publication, with the inevitability that some editions had a more professional appearance than others. The first issue was printed in June 1895, and the publication ran for 18 years, until 1913” (“The Work of Amateurs”)
• Publisher's address: 29 Woolwich Common, London (Willing's vol. 27, p. 5)

Subject Categories

• Design
• Printing Trade
• Typography

Issues

• Amateur Printing 1.1 (June 1895)
• Amateur Printing 1.2 (September 1895)
• Amateur Printing 1.3 (December 1895)
• Amateur Printing 2.1 (March 1896)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• Shattock p. 52
• Stewart vol. 1, p. 100
• Willing’s 1900, p. 5
• “The Work”

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• 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.
• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.
• “The Work of Amateurs.” St. Bride Foundation: The Blog, 5 Aug. 2014.