Alternate Subtitle(s)

• “A Journal for all Connected with the Printing, Lithographic, Stationery, and Process Trades” (journal itself)

Start Date(s)

• 1898 (Shattock)
• 1908 (Stewart)

End Date(s)

• 1909 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Baker, Thomas

City

• London, England

Circulation Count

• 6,000 in 1899 (The Waterloo Directory (online))

Type of Content

• A medium for manufactures and buyers ("We Make Our Bow," vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 7-8)
• Contains carefully-written articles, with a concise synopsis of current trade news, advertisements ("To Manufacturers," vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4-5)

Notes

• Subtitle varies. No. 3 (May 1909) is, "a journal for all connected with the printing, lithographic, stationery, and process trades" (journal itself)
• "Our title . . . sufficiently indicates the place we intend to occupy, and our dates of publication have been purposely arranged so that advertisers in our columns may always catch the trade of the buying season immediately following the issue of every number....As to literary contents, [it]...is, first and foremost, A MEDIUM FOR MANUFACTURES AND BUYERS; their interests will always be paramount to other considerations, and what we print will invariably be calculated to be serviceable as well as interesting to them" ("We Make Our Bow," vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 7-8).
• "The Literary part of [The Caxtonian Quarterly]...will be conducted by a gentleman of very wide experience in this class of journalism. The contents will consist of carefully-written articles, with a concise synopsis of current trade news. The permanent value of the work as a quarterly book of references sure to attract the attention of many members of the trade who will become permanent subscribers....All advertisements will be placed opposite or immediately under reading matter; they will thus be seen without being sought for, and will ensure every one a prominent position" ("To Manufacturers," vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4-5).
• "With the New Year we hope to increase the scope of the CAXTONIAN QUARTERLY by the incorporation of the COLONIST AND EXPORTER, and altering the months of publication from February, May, August and November, to January, April, July and October. This course has been adopted in the interests of our readers, who will thus have a better opportunity of knowing what is taking place all over our Empire in connection with printing and kindred trades....The circulation of the incorporated Journals will now be 8000 copies, distributed over Great Britain, India, and the Colonies" ("1900--Our Intentions for the New Year," vol. 7, p. 1).
• The Caxtonian Quarterly "keeps up regular communications . . . between the manufacturers at home and distributors abroad, all the year round, and over the most extensive and most easily covered business field in the world, helping to remove the complaint that British manufacturers and merchants do not keep sufficiently in touch with their natural customers everywhere" (vol. 1, no. 5, p. 6)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Colonies
• Printing Trade

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• NSTC
• Shattock 53
• St. Bride Catalogue (online)
• Stewart 1:518
• Willing’s 1906:35

Works Cited

• 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.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• St. Bride Foundation Catalogue, St. Bride Library, 2022.