Start Date(s)

• 1887 (Shattock)

End Date(s)

• 1897 (Shattock)

Editor(s)

• McCoy, M. P.

City

• London, England

Notes

• This was the quarterly house organ for M. P. McCoy, agent for American type and machines (Catalogue 33)
• “Towards the end of 1878, Mr. M. P. McCoy . . . took up a commission to import the productions of Messrs. MacKellar, Smiths, and Jordan, of Philadelphia, and came to this country [Britain]. But not until 1879, when Mr. McCoy joined the firm of Messrs. J. L. Chaplin and Co. . . . can it be said that American type and material were brought generally before the notice of British printers” (Joyner 25)
• “The Typographic Chronicle is a sixteen-page, 8 by 11, periodical, published by M. P. McCoy, Phoenix Works, London, England. Mr. McCoy shows in his publication the latest faces of type handled by him, and describes the latest styles of presses and machinery for which he is agent. The work is very well printed on fine enameled stock, and tasteful treatment in its make-up” (“Review of Specimens Received” 245)
• begins a new series in Mar 1898; this series ends in Jan 1901 (Shattock 52)
• publisher's address: Phoenix Place, W. C. (BLT19 Database); or M. P. McCoy, 54 Farringdon Rd. (Mitchell's 1895, 235)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• Shattock 52; 4:362; 245; 25; 235

Works Cited

• Shattock, Joanne. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 4: 1800-1900. Edited by Frederick W. Bateson. 3rd ed. Cambridge UP. 1999.