Start Date(s)

• 1875 (Bigmore and Wyman)

End Date(s)

• 1895 (NSTC )
• 1929 (Ulrich and Kup)
• 1934 (COPAC)

Editor(s)

• Smith, T. W.

City

• London, England

Circulation Count

• 5000 (Hubbard)

Type of Content

• Information on type and new designs in type
• Supplement, law printing, type founding, combination border, the printing trade, a suggestion, to correspondents (Oct 1875) (Waterloo)
• Also: Our recent type-founding novelties, reduced prices of locking-up apparatus, the linotype machine (Spring 1896) (Waterloo)
• "Distinctive feature: type and new designs in type" (Mitchell's 1895, p. 238)

Notes

• Title changes to Caslon's Circular and Type Founder in 1904 (COPAC)
• “This is primarily intended as a medium for the circulation of the specimens of the new types of the Caslon foundry, but it contains practical information for printers and others. The first number was issued January 1st, 1875, being edited by Mr T. W. Smith, the acting manager, and one of the proprietors of the celebrated foundry. It consists of 4 pages, with occasional specimen sheets as supplements” (Bigmore and Wyman 2:164; PT&L vol. 7, no. 74, 15 Feb. 1881, p. 35)
• "Gentlemen, we have the pleasure to draw your special attention to the type in imitation of Type-writing with which this Specimen is printed. It is a reproduction of the characters used in the best Type-writing Machines now being gradually adopted in this country. In America the use of these Machines by the commercial world is almost universal, and their equally extensive adoption in this country is only a question of time. Circulars that are issued from the press, no matter how important, are very often banished unread to the limbo of the waste paper basket, and we, therefore, think it a pardonable ruse so to imitate Type-writing that the same attention shall be secured for Letterpress Printing as for Lithographic facsimiles. Yours faithfully, H.W. Caslon & Co" (Caslon Letter Foundry, no. 59)--this letter, addressed to Cambridge University Press, is reproduced in Printing Types and Ornaments, Cambridge UP, 1909, p. 111
• This periodical was not published between Feb 1915 and Feb 1921 (COPAC); Brown says it suspended publication from 1915-20 (Brown 382)
• Publisher's address: 22 Chiswell St., London (BTL19 Database)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Printing Trade
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• BLT19
• “The Bibliography” 7:35
• Bigmore and Wyman 2:164
• Brown and Stratton 382
• COPAC
• Hubbard 2:1710
• Mitchell’s 1895 238
• NSTC
• Ulrich and Kup 53, 202

Works Cited

• Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
• Brown, Peter, and George B. Stratton. World List of Scientific Periodicals Published in the Years 1900-1960. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1963.
• Hubbard, Harlan P. Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World. Hubbard, 1882-84. Google Books.
• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser’s Guide. C. Mitchell, 1895.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• BLT19 Trade and Professional Press Database 1900. Created by Andrew King, 2020.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.