The Bookbinder
Subtitle: “A Monthly Journal for Book-Binders, Librarians and all Lovers of Books”
Related Journals
- British Bookmaker
- The Bookbinder becomes The British Bookmaker in July 1890 (volume 4)
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- London, England (Journal Itself)
Circulation Count
- 10,000 in 1890 (journal itself)
Type of Content
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notable bookmakers, our portrait gallery, the Edinburgh exhibition, the trade charities, book notes, foreign notes, workshop whisperings, business notices, our competition, late book notices (Waterloo)
- contains illustrations (some colored) (journal itself)
Notes
- "We propose during the next year to continue upon our general lines, giving special technical articles on various branches of the trade from time to time. Finishing, Blocking, Tooled and Chiselled Edges will be dealt with; Stationery Binding will be recommenced. Recipes will be given as they may be required, and every effort made to give the latest hints and wrinkles. A short History of the Bookbinders' Trade Societies will take the place of the Trade Charities. Our Prize Competitions which have lately been well taken up will form a prominent feature, and we hope to be able to give Special Prizes at intervals for the best work in other branches of the trade similar to that offered to Finishers recently" ("To Our Readers," vol 4? can't confirm)
- “The Bookbinder has now completed its third yearly volume and we should be willing to leave the workmen and students of our craft to pass a verdict upon its right to future life. Satisfied, however, of the favourable ‘finding’ of such a jury, the proprietors of The Bookbinder have decided to enter upon the new volume in enlarged form. In its fourth year The Bookbinder will grow into The British Bookmaker, and under its new title it will be found an authority upon all matters that appertain to the making of a perfect book” (“Preface,” vol. 3, no. 25, June 1890)
- “As we have intimated in various ways for some months past, the new volume of The Bookbinder will appear under the title of The British Bookmaker, and in that guise will contain information upon every variety of topic that concerns the making of a book” (“Editorial Notes,” vol. 3, no. 36, 1890, p. 177)
- “It is this matter that that leads us up to the main consideration of this introduction to A New Volume—And a New Departure. So warmly have friends and supporters gathered around us—growing more constant and true as the years passed by—that we have come to the conclusion it is impossible to do full justice to our own aspirations and to the efforts of others in the somewhat limited field The Bookbinder has hitherto occupied. With the change of proprietorship which has been intimated to our readers in the past three issues of this journal, the necessary alterations became more practicable” (“Preliminary to the Fourth Volume,” vol. 4, no. 37, July 1890)
- “The Bookbinder could hardly be called a trade journal, though it professed to be one, for reasons of which you, as practical men, are well aware; and it was of little more use than the newspaper, which is utterly incapable of giving concise and intelligent information upon all the diverse trades and interests by which it is surrounded. For this reason we determined to make a thorough-going trade journal, in which inventive progress and industrial growth should be studied, and which should be en rapport with current events and aim at aiding and advancing the interests of the trade. To say that we have done these things and done them well may sound like blowing our own trumpets, but we will do it with other people’s music” (“To Our Readers,” vol. 5, no. 49, July 1891)
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- COPAC
- NSTC
- The Waterloo Directory (online)
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