Exhibition and Market of Machinery Implements and Material Used by Printers Stationers Papermakers and Kindred Trades

First published in 1880 this is a complete catalogue of the traders and products that featured in an exhibition at London''s Agricultural Hall 517 July 1880. The focus of the exhibition was printing stationery papermaking and related trades and around 200 organisations participated displaying items such as printing appliances papermaking machinery stationery materials packaging and precision instruments. The catalogue''s editor journalist Lucien Wolf (18571930) prefaces it with an informative overview of trade exhibitions examining their history and future and their role in bringing together producers retailers buyers wholesalers and importers to assess competition compare products and evaluate the state and progress of their trades. The main body of the catalogue contains information on exhibitors and their products and a range of authentic advertisements. Providing a revealing snapshot of industrial England this work remains of interest to historians and scholars interested in Victorian trade.