Start Date(s)

• 1877 (Bigmore and Wyman)

End Date(s)

• 1889 (Stewart)

Editor(s)

• Hailing, Thomas
• Hailing, William

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Oxford Printing Works

City

• Cheltenham, England

Type of Content

• “Records novelties in type and machinery” (Waterloo)
• “Furnished news on developments in color painting and wood engraving techniques.” It circulated among “artists, engravers, etc.” (Hubbard 2:1589)
• Contains "Specimens of colour printing and wood engravings" (Willing’s 48)

Notes

• Mottos: "Work is worship" and "Hasten slowly" (vol. 1, no. 1, Nov. 1877, frontispiece)
• “In the fifth number it is stated that the main object originally of the publication was ‘the modest one of imparting to our patrons and more immediate neighbours in the district a little technical knowledge of the noble art of printing.’ Hence the periodical was issued gratuitously. So highly was it appreciated, however, that a charge has since been made for it, and the Circular has developed into a purely technical serial. It is beautifully printed, and the display of type is both ingenious and original” (Bigmore and Wyman 2:171)
• Opening address in vol. 1 describes a distinctive feature of every number's first page: "With regard to the types on this page, it will be observed that they vary in size through several stages, and are so arranged as to show the relative number of words required to cover a given space. Their names and relative proportions are given in the margin, and it will be seen, by careful analysis, that the difference between the two extremes of type here shown is as 1 to 20; or, in other words, one letter of 'Two-line English' occupies the space of twenty letters of 'Nonpareil’" (vol. 1, no. 1, Nov. 1877, p. 1)
• Publisher's address: Oxford Printing Works, Cheltenham (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Design
• Printing History
• Printing Trade
• Typography

Issues

• Hailing's 1.1 (November 1877)
• Hailing's 1.2 (Spring 1878)
• Hailing's 1.3 (Summer 1878)
• Hailing's 1.4 (Spring 1879)
• Hailing's 1.5 (Autumn 1879)
• Hailing's 1.6 (Summer 1880)
• Hailing's 1.7 (Autumn 1880)
• Hailing's 1.8 (Spring 1881)
• Hailing's 1.9 (Autumn 1881)
• Hailing's 1.10 (Spring 1882)
• Hailing's 1.11 (Summer 1882)
• Hailing's 1.12 (Autumn 1882)
• Hailing's 2.13 (Spring 1883)
• Hailing's 2.14 (Summer 1883)
• Hailing's 2.15 (Autumn 1883)
• Hailing's 2.16 (Spring 1884)
• Hailing's 2.17 (Autumn 1884)
• Hailing's 2.18 (Summer 1885)
• Hailing's 2.19 (Spring 1886)
• Hailing's 2.20 (Spring 1887)
• Hailing's 2.21 (Winter 1887)
• Hailing's 2.22 (Autumn 1888)
• Hailing's 2.23 (Spring 1889)
• Hailing's 2.24 (Autumn 1889)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, no. 75, p. 65
• Bigmore and Wyman vol. 2, p. 171
• COPAC
• Hubbard 1882, vol. 2, 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.