Alternate Title(s)

• Stationary, Bookselling, and Fancy Goods (Mitchell’s 1895)
• British Empire Paper, Stationery & Printing Trades Journal and Master Printer (Willing’s)

Alternate Subtitle(s)

• A Review of Novelties and New Introductions, and Record of Events of interest and value to all branches of the Stationery, Bookselling, Fancy Goods and Toy Trades (Mitchell’s 1895)

Start Date(s)

• 1897 (Bateson)
• 1881 (Willing’s)

End Date(s)

• 1903 (Bateson)

Editor(s)

• Morriss, Job Shufflebottom
• Birch, Theodore

City

• London, England

Type of Content

Notes

• "Established 1881; the only journal avowedly published in the interests of the Retail Trade" (title page 1898)
• "With the desire to stimulate trade relations between English manufacturers and buyers in such excellent markets as South and Central America and Mexico, we have made arrangements to publish every month (beginning with our March number) a Supplement, printed in the Spanish language, containing a concise summary of the articles and notices of new goods appearing in each issue. Simultaneously, a Supplement in German will also appear for the benefit of traders in countries where the German language predominates" ("Important Announcement," 1898, p. 72)
• Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature says Morriss's Trade Journal directly continues Stationery, Bookselling, and Fancy Goods, as also indicated in ad text in Smith's (Bateson 101; Smith's 589)
• "The British Trade Journal and Master Printer. Comprising Stationery Trade Review, The Master Printer, Bookselling, Fancy Goods and Toy Trades Journal and Picture Postcard Chronicle. A journal covering all of the paper, printing, stationery, publishing, and fancy trades. 29th year (1911). Issued monthly by Morriss’s Trade Journal” ("Periodicals," vol. 23, no. 23, 12 Feb. 1919, p. 68)
• Publisher's address: 13 Paternoster Row (Mitchell's 1895, p.78)
• Combines with Stationary and Stationary Trades [sic] Review in 1903 and continues as British Empire Paper, Stationery & Printing Trades Journal and Master Printer (1903-13) (Willing's 1906, 33:27, 123, 382)
• Merges into The Caxton Magazine after 1913 (Stewart 4:221)

Subject Categories

• Advertising
• Book Trade & Bookselling
• Book Trade News
• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Willing’s 1906:27,123,382; 382, 589; 101; 78; 4:221; 68

Works Cited

• Willing’s (Late May’s) British and Irish Press Guide, and Advertiser’s Directory and Handbook. Willing’s Press Service. HathiTrust.