Alternate Subtitle(s)

• A Weekly Record of Typography, Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts (Bigmore and Wyman)

Start Date(s)

• 1865 (Bigmore and Wyman)

End Date(s)

• 1869 (Bigmore and Wyman)
• 1867 (COPAC)

Editor(s)

• Newsagents' Publishing Company, Ltd.

City

• London, England

Notes

• Motto: "Duty be thy polar guide/ Haste not rest not -- conflicts past;/ Do the right, whate'er betide; -- God shall crown thy work at last. -- Goethe" (vol. 1, 1865)
• From the opening address: "Our chief duties will be to chronicle the progress of the various departments of typography so far as art itself is concerned, register the current state of business, report the proceedings of our trade and benefit societies, urge the necessity of proper ventilation and improved sanitary arrangements in our workrooms, point out the indispensability of recreation and manly exercise as conservative of health and afford to printers themselves the opportunity of discussing and ventilating those arrangements which may be most beneficial for them to adopt in the development of their various institutions" ("Address," vol. 1, no. 1, 2 Jan. 1865, p. 1)
• Original series ran 1865-1867 (2 vols); new series ran 1868-1869 (3 vols) (NSTC)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Bigmore and Wyman 2:185; 3:604; 7:117; 51

Works Cited

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