Related Journals

• Amateur Printers’ Journal and Philatelists’ Gazette
  • This was an early iteration of The Amateur Printers' Journal and Philatelists' Gazette (which ran from January to March of 1872)

Start Date(s)

• 1871 (Tiffany)

End Date(s)

• 1872 (Tiffany)

Editor(s)

• Wightman, W.

Printer/Publisher(s)

• T. Sykes

City

• Leeds, England (Journal Itself)

Type of Content

• About half of vol. 1, no. 4 (March 1872) is dedicated to amateur printing, while the rest focuses entirely on philately (journal itself)
• Contains short stories, informational articles, trade news, obituaries

Notes

• The Printing Times and Lithographer’s bibliography says that a journal called The Amateur Printers’ Journal began in Leeds in 1872 as a “medium of intercommunication for the amateur Printing and Foreign Stamp trade” (“The Bibliography” 13)
• “As an amateur printer’s journal this is a creditable performance, though even an amateur need not have allowed ‘How I Climed a Tree’ to go to press. As a foreign stamp gazette, it is nowhere. An article on Stamp Collecting, by J. E. Gray, ‘reprinted from one of his books,’ and a catalogue of stamps constitute its sole attraction. We are surprised to find such sounding pretentions so poorly supported” (“Reviews” 110)
• “Published monthly and circulated widely throughout the United Kingdom” (Tiffany 52)
• Editor W. Wightman's address: 27 Derby Crescent, Leeds (journal itself)
• Publisher's address: Commercial Street and Hope Street, Morley, Leeds (Tiffany 52)

Subject Categories

• Philately
• Printing History
• Printing Trade

Issues

• Amateur Printers' Journal and Foreign Stamp Gazette 1.1 (December 1871)
• Amateur Printers' Journal and Foreign Stamp Gazette 1.2 (January 1872)
• Amateur Printers' Journal and Foreign Stamp Gazette 1.3 (February 1872)
• Amateur Printers' Journal and Foreign Stamp Gazette 1.4 (March 1872)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” vol. 7, p. 13
• COPAC
• Jones, Jones’ p. 4
• “Reviews of Postal” p. 110
• Tiffany p. 52

Works Cited

• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• Jones, E. B. Jones’ Check List of Philatelic Journals, Great Britain and Colonies. Jones, 1907. Global Philatelic Library.
• “Reviews of Postal Publications.” The Stamp-Collector’s Magazine, vol. 10, 1872, pp. 110-11. Google Books.
• Tiffany, John K. The Philatelical Library: A Catalogue of Stamp Publications. St. Louis, 1874. Google Books.