Start Date(s)

• 1867 (journal itself)

End Date(s)

• 1869 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Day, William J.

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Day and Co.

City

• London, England

Type of Content

• “Each issue of this periodical contains three colour illustrations” (vol. 1, no. 1, 23 Nov. 1867, p. vi)
• Contains chromolithographs, comments, stories, reviews, articles, advertisements, articles on ancient and modern artists, illustrated lessons in art accomplishment, miscellaneous articles (Waterloo)
• The 1869 volume “Includes numerous articles by Christopher Dresser” (COPAC)

Notes

• “The title of this Journal indicates that the leading, most valuable, and attractive feature will be profuse illustration in Chromolithography, the most beautiful and refined of all the reproductive arts. Its secondary titles supply an index to the subjects to be treated of and illustrated in its pages, and embrace those calculated to give a final polish to the most liberal education; the object, therefore, is to make every article, as well as every illustration, worthy the attention of the most highly accomplished” (vol. 1, no. 1, 23 Nov. 1867, p. vi)
• “The Journal will contain 16 pages of text, and three full-page chromolithographs. It will be published every Saturday” (vol. 1, no. 1, 23 Nov. 1867, p. vi)
• “The Chromolithograph can be purchased in monthly parts for 2s/6d or for sixpence per issue” (vol. 1, no. 1, 23 Nov. 1867, p. vi)
• Publication of this periodical was suspended from February 15 to July 4, 1868 (COPAC)
• “Though little is said about process and perfection of chromolithography, the specimens, bound with the periodical, tell a vivid story of experiment and strife in a new field. There are biographical notices of leading artists of the day, and reports on current exhibitions” (Ulrich & Kup 84)
• Each weekly issue contained 3 color plates, and “in its brief career it contained articles by Christopher Dresser, Aaron Penley, the Audsleys, and others, but its feebly executed colour plates did not compare at all well with the chromolithographs of Owen Jones and all the other leading artists in this field. The second volume, published by Zorn and Co., ended with part no. 52 on March 27, 1869” (McLean 136)
• Publisher's address (Day & Son): 20 Cockspur St., London, S.W. (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Design
• Fine Art
• Lithography
• Printing History
• Printing Trade

Issues

• Chromolithograph 1.1 (23 Nov. 1867)
• Chromolithograph 1.2 (30 Nov. 1867)
• Chromolithograph 1.3 (7 Dec. 1867)
• Chromolithograph 1.4 (14 Dec. 1867)
• Chromolithograph 1.5 (21 Dec. 1867)
• Chromolithograph 1.6 (28 Dec. 1867)
• Chromolithograph 1.7 (4 Jan. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 1.8 (11 Jan. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 1.9 (18 Jan. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 1.10 (25 Jan. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 1.11 (1 Feb. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 1.12 (8 Feb. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 2.13 (15 Feb. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 2.14 (22 Feb. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 2.15 (29 Feb. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 2.16 (7 Mar. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 2.17 (14 Mar. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 2.18 (21 Mar. 1868)
• Chromolithograph 2.19 (28 Mar. 1868)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• McLean p. 136
• NSTC
• Roberts 45
• Shattock 51
• Stewart vol. 1, p. 564
• Ulrich and Kup pp. 18, 84

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• McLean, Ruari. Victorian Book Design. U of California P, 1972.
• NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
• Roberts, Helene E. “British Art Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, no. 9, 1970, pp. 1–183. JSTOR.
• 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.