Alternate Title(s)

• Sales and Wants Advertiser (Mitchell’s 1895)
• Printing Trades Journal (Shattock)

Start Date(s)

• 1887 (COPAC)

End Date(s)

• 1962 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• Dorrington, William

City

• London, England

Circulation Count

• 8000 (journal itself)

Type of Content

Notes

• Underneath title reads: "The Best, Cheapest, and Only Special Medium in the Trade for all Wants," and, "A Monthly Register of New & Second-hand Machinery, Engines, Materials, &c., used in the above Trades, also Businesses FOR SALE, Auction Sales, Partnerships, Premises to Let, Situations Wanted and Vacant, and all Trade Wants" (1911)
• Title page states that guaranteed circulation of next and succeeding issues is 8000 copies, but this information may not be accurate (1887, 1911)
• Publisher's address: Bear Alley, Farringdon Street (BLT19 Database)
• "Indispensable to every printing office, bindery, or graphic art studio" (Ulrich 110)
• Incorporated with The Printing World (Shattock 52)

Subject Categories

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

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Shattock 52; 60, 89, 110; 231; 1891:94

Works Cited

• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.