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• Printing Times The Lithographer and The Printing Times merged to become The Printing Times and Lithographer in Aug 1874
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Start Date(s)

• 1874 (Bateson)
• 1870 (BLT19)

End Date(s)

• 1891 (Ulrich and Kup)
• 1901 (Bateson)

Editor(s)

• Wyman, Charles William Henry
• Colebrook, Frank

City

• London, England

Type of Content

Notes

• Merged with The Lithographer in Aug 1874 (Richmond 246); was called The Printing Times until that date (PT&L 7:117)
• PT&L lists all of the separate issues of both titles; as do Bigmore and Wyman
• A new series begins in 1875 (Bigmore and Wyman 2:186) 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.
• "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," 1873, p.1)
• Motto: "Knowledge is Power" (title page, 1873).
• An ad in May's Press Guide of 1875 boasts: "The Printing Times and Lithographer is the leading journal of the printing profession and has a large circulation in Great Britain and abroad. It presents and excellent medium for advertisements addressed to Letter-press, Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printers, Stationers, Bookbinders, and the Trade generally, in all parts of the world" (May's 1875:135)
• The Bibliography of Printing, which ran from 1876-1885 and was mostly edited by John Southward, "was published in book form in three volumes 1880-86" (Berry and Poole 249)
• Publisher's address: Tunbridge Wells; 165 Queen Victoria Street, London (BLT19 Database)
• “The Printing Times and Lithographer is a high-class journal, devoted to the Printing and Graphic Arts, in all of their various forms. It derives its information from, and circulates in, all parts of the world. . . . The Printing Times and Lithographer is a thoroughly established journal, whose contents are well read, and carefully preserved . . . ” (Wolf 286)

Subject Categories

• Book Trade News
• Lithography
• Printing Trade
• Publishing

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Bateson 88; 249; 2:186; 184; 1875:135; 7:117; 57, 87; 286

Works Cited

• Bateson, Frederick Wilse. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 3: 1800-1900. Series editor George Watson. Cambridge UP, 1969.