Start Date(s)

• 1872 (BLT19)
• 1877 (Peltz)

End Date(s)

• 1896 (Zakreski)
• 1897 (Shattock)
• 1895 (Stewart)

Editor(s)

• Tuer, Andrew White
• Southward, John

City

• London, England

Type of Content

Notes

• "As might have been expected, a slight revival of trade occurred simultaneously with the opening of Parliament. Still, matters are not quite so good as is desirable. Papermakers are bewailing the dulness of the times, and, of course, those who use paper share their grief, and refuse to be comforted by the very low figures per pound to which paper has dropped. There has been about the usual number of new ventures since Christmas, and the usual amount of rumour about a new London daily paper and the daily illustrated journal that is to be. The obituary of the past three months is not so long, but the next three months may, however, tell a different tale" (no. 18, 1877)
• Shattock says there was a no. 89 in 1897 (Shattock 52)
• "Tuer was also committed to raising the standards and status of modern commercial printing and with this intention, in 1877, he instigated and edited the quarterly Paper and Printing Trades Journal" (Peltz, "Tuer")
• “A feature of this journal is the publication with each issue of a more or less useful trade table. Its information, which is amusingly put together, is given in a condensed form, and in a style that savours somewhat of the Transatlantic journalist. A ‘Printers’ International Specimen Exchange’ has recently been successfully inaugurated in connection with this journal” (PT&L 92) (Bigmore and Wyman 2:182)
• Only the first volume of Specimens is at present completed (PT&L 92)
• Hailing says "This is a very extraordinary publication. Extraordinary not only in the style in which it is 'got up'--which simply 'beggars all description,'--but in the manner in which it has reached its present circulation. We were told in a recent number that L50 worth of postage stamps were required for each issue, and that the circulation continues to increase. This is as it should be, for if any one of our trade journals deserves success more than another that one is the Paper and Printing Trades Journal" ("Golden Opinions," Hailing's Circular 1.4, Spring 1879, p. 16)
• "In Sept. 1873 for 1gn/a manufacturers could have names and addresses listed" (Zakreski 479)
• "An index containing references for articles, items of information, contributors of specimens, advertisers, and directory of manufacturers for the first 32 issues was published in 1881" (Zakreski 480)
• This index was compiled by Edwin P. (or E. R.) Pearce (Bigmore & Wyman 2:182)
• Publisher's address: E. R. Larrance, 5 Wine Office Court (BLT19 Database); or 18 Featherstone Buildings, High Holborn (Index)

Subject Categories

• Paper & Stationery
• Printing Trade
• Publishing
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Bigmore and Wyman 479-90; 7:92; 241; 8-9, 52; 2:182; 61; 98; 3:500; 16; 22

Works Cited

• Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.