Paper Trade Review [London] – Victorian Print Trade Journals Database

The Paper Trade Review [London]

Subtitle: “A Weekly Journal for the Paper and Pulp Trades”

Alternate Title(s)

The World's Paper Trade Review (Couper (1903))

Alternate Subtitle(s)

A weekly journal for paper makers and engineers (COPAC)

Related Journals

Half-Yearly Report of the Typographical Association Will become the World's Paper Trade Review (1883; 1891-1972)

Start Date(s)

1879 (Couper (1903))
1883 (Shattock)

End Date(s)

1891 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

Stonhill, William John

City

London, England

Type of Content

• "Practical Data relating to Paper and Pulp Manufacture, Illustrations of New Mechanical Appliances, Technical Queries and Answers, and Financial Notes" (Mitchell's 1905, p. 92) • Sell's 1887 writes, "The only weekly journal for paper-makers. Contains latest mill news, particulars of sales by auction, illustrations of patents, record of foreign patents, government contracts; market reports of paper-stock, raw materials and fibres; imports and exports of the week at all United Kingdom ports; and correspondence of a technical character" (Sell's 1887, p. 154) • Newspaper Press Directory 1895: "A weekly international journal for paper-makers, and paper mill engineers and furnishers. Contains latest mill news, particulars of sales by auction, illustrations of patents and new inventions: government contracts; practical data and wrinkles relating to paper and pulp manufacture: illustrations of new mechanical appliances, and technical queries and answers; financial notes and "Who's Who?"—(limited company information); dependable market reports and closest prices of home and foreign rags, wood pulps, and all raw materials, chemicals, etc.; and a weekly record of imports at and exports from principal U.K. Ports, and trade statistics and correspondence from all countries" (Mitchell's 1895, p. 74)

Notes

"The only weekly journal for paper makers" (title page, 1884)
In 1891, this is published at the same office as British & Colonial Printer & Stationer (Willing's 289)
It became The World's Paper Trade Review from 1891 to 1972 (Shattock 9)
"Curiously a journal, originally started in 1879 in London as the paper trade section of The British and Colonial Printer and Stationer, took in 1883 as its name The Paper Trade Review on separate publication. "World's was subsequently added. It had no connection with MacNiven & Cameron's venture" (Couper vol. 5, Feb. 1904, p.118)
"A weekly journal for paper makers and engineers" (Mitchell's 1905, p. 92)
Publisher's address: 58 Shoe Lane, Holborn Viaduct, E.C. (BLT19 Database); or 26-30 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus (journal itself, 1883)
Supplement: Technical Section of the Paper Makers Association (Ulrich 103)

Subject Categories

Sources that Discuss this Journal

Couper (1903) 118; 1887:154; 1891:289; 74; 92; 9; 3:500; 103

Works Cited

Couper, William James. "A Bibliography of Edinburgh Periodical Literature." Scottish Notes and Queries, vol. 5, no. 1, July 1903, pp. 10-11. Google Books.