The Stationery Trade Review
Subtitle: “Devoted to the Interests of the Stationery, Leather, and Fancy Goods Trade”
Alternate Title(s)
- Stationery Trade Review & Booksellers' Journal (1884) (journal itself)
- Stationery and Bookselling (1888) (Willing’s)
Start Date(s)
End Date(s)
- 1888 (Willing’s)
- 1887 (Shattock)
Editor(s)
City
Circulation Count
Type of Content
• bills of sale, notices of new goods/ books, trade scraps, local notes, notes from subscribers, letters to the editor, business changes and announcements, trade recipes, obituary, Endymion, American notes, odds and ends, advertisements (Waterloo)
• "Regular departments included: the State of the Trade, Notices of New Goods, Notices of New Books, Letters to the Editor, the Gazette, which announced new companies and business failures, and Law Reports" (Hale, BLT19)Notes
- Absorbed by Stationery and Bookselling (London, 1889)--Catalogue 32; Willings 109
- "ONE ISSUE of 'S & B' in 1890 contained MORE ADVERTISEMENTS of the PAPER-MAKING, STATIONERY, AND FANCY GOODS Branches than all the other Journals in these Trades combined. This is an undeniable proof of the claims of 'S & B' to the support of those Trades of which it is so worthy a representative" (Willing's 240)
- "A review of novelties and new introductions, and a record of events of interest and value to all branches of the stationery, bookselling, fancy goods, and toy trades" (Mitchell's 1895, 78)
- "Still holds its position as the most 'Go-ahead' and up-to-date trade journal extant. Every issue contains interesting technical articles written by experts, besides a mine of useful notes, notices of new goods, and other practical information invaluable to all connected with the paper, printing, stationary, bookbinding, publishing, bookselling, fancy goods, toys, games, and allied trades" (Smith's 589)
- "The Stationery Trade Review was a trade journal launched in Edinburgh in January 1881 to serve the needs of the stationery, leather, and fancy goods trades in the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It was published by Ormiston & Glass, a wholesale stationer, fancy-goods dealer, and publisher with locations in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The publisher felt that existing publications aimed at the stationery business focussed far too much on London and not enough on the needs of businesses outside of the metropolis. In its first year, the Stationery Trade Review was published monthly. At the beginning of the second year of publication, however, a number of changes were made: 1) the page dimensions were increased; 2) additional pages were added; 3) the periodicity changed from monthly (12 issues per year) to every alternate month (6 issues per year); and 4) the cost of an annual subscription was decreased. The Stationery Trade Review sought to provide provincial businesspeople with the latest news about the trade and new product developments because, 'Fancy Stationery must be had piping hot, or it is not worth having at all'" (Hale, BLT19)
- "Articles outside of departments tended to be excerpted from other trade and popular publications, and the subject matter combined histories of the trade, legal topics, entertaining stories and anecdotes related to the trade, and other materials designed to inform and educate businesspeople about developments in technology, products, and business practices. While the journal professed to focus on northern England, Scotland, and Ireland, the articles situate the trade in a global framework, providing information on everything from copyright in various international jurisdictions to paper consumption in several areas around the globe" (Hale, BLT19)
- "The printer, G.D. Stewart, and stand-in editor, Andrew Lang, were put in charge while the Stationery Trade Review‘s proprietor/publisher/editor, James Glass, was travelling in Australia [in 1887]" (Hale, BTL19)
- "The January number of the Stationery Trade Review has been issued in a greatly improved form. The size has been considerably enlarged, and the literary contents are such as cannot but be of interst to those to whom its pages are specially addressed. The Review, which has just commenced the second year of its existence, intead of being brought out monthly, as hitherto, will in future be issued every alternate month. Messrs. Ormiston and Glass, of Elder-street, Edinburgh, are the publishers" (PT&L 1882: 48)
- Smith & Co. address: 13 Paternoster Row (Hale, BLT19); 57-59 Ludgate Hill (Mitchell's 1905:255)
- Stationery Trade Review & Booksellers' Journal (1884); Stationery and Bookselling (1888); Continued in London as Stationery, Bookselling and Fancy Goods, (1888-01 to 1897-09); becomes Morriss's Trade Journal (1897-10 to 1903-04); then becomes British Empire Paper, Stationery and Printing Trades Journal (1903-05 to 1913-06)
Subject Categories
Sources that Discuss this Journal
- Hubbard 2:1764; 4:222; 86; 101; 1887:463; 78; 1891:109; 382, 589; 1882:48
Works Cited
- Hubbard, Harlan P. Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World. Hubbard, 1882-84. Google Books.
