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The Printing Times

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Printing Times and Lithographer Becomes The Printing Times and Lithographer after incorporation with The Lithographer in Aug 1874
Lithographer Becomes The Lithographer again in Sept 1891

Start Date(s)

1873 (“The Bibliography”)
1869 (Willing’s)

End Date(s)

1874 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

City

London, England

Type of Content

• to our readers, topics of the month, the provinces, newspaper and historical press, the typographer, the lithographer, the engraver, the letter founder, the stationer, the bookbinder, the publisher, correspondence, legal, new inventions, trade changes, obituary (1873) (Waterloo Directory) • b/w etchings; b/w engravings; colour lithographs (1900)(Waterloo Directory)

Notes

PT&L lists all of the separate issues of both titles (PT&L 7: 117)
Motto: "Knowledge is Power" (vol. 1, 1873)
Publisher's address: 18 Bouverie St (vol. 1, 1873)
"An illustrated, technical, and fine-art journal of Typography, Lithography, Paper-making, and the auxiliary trades" (May's, 1875:135)
A new series begins in 1875 and continues to 1900; however, the new series issues are also numbered according to the old series. May cites a start date of 1869 indicating the likelihood of an earlier series or title (Waterloo Directory)
"We shall spare no effort to make the Printing Times a complete and trustworthy monthly compendium of trade news from all parts of the world. We shall deal with all questions which may arise, either between any of the various branches of the trade, or within any given branch itself, with all fairness and frankness. Moreover we shall willingly throw open our columns to the full and free discussion of all such questions by the parties who are more or less immediately interested in them. . . . Having said this much, we retire at once into the obscurity of the editorial impersonality" (vol. 1, no. 1, 1873)
"The Printing Times is launched because it is thought that it will supply a well-defined and long-felt want. We have no disparaging word to say of our trade contemporaries. They fulfil, and fulfil ably, a distinct function of their own, with which we have no desire to interfere. But we believe - and we have abundant reason to know that we are not alone in the belief - that an independent journal is required which shall, so to speak, draw all the various branches of the Printing trade into one focus, and become not only their record of events, but their organ of intercommunication on all trade topics" ("To Our Readers" vol. 1, 1873, p. 1)
"Its aim: The most practical Printers' Journal yet published--'An aim that has become a tradition'" (Penrose, vol. 2, 1896, p. xxxii)
Called The Printing Times and the Lithographer (after incorporation with The Lithographer in Aug. 1874); then just The Lithographer in Sept. 1891 (PT&L 7:117)

Subject Categories

Sources that Discuss this Journal

“The Bibliography” 7:117; 52; 1875:11, 135; xxxii; 57, 87; 3:605

Works Cited

“The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.