The Publishing Work

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 17, 1878

The Publishing Work.

THE following is a summary of the number of pages of our denominational works issued from the Review Office, since its establishment. From 1864 to 1878, each year’s work is given separately. The figures are taken from the pressman’s book. Previous to 1864 the Office had issued pages of tracts, bound books, and pamphlets to the number of 50,058,000.

Year	Pages
In 1864	6,119,220
“ 1865	3,176,808
“ 1866	1,133,440
“ 1867	1,964,460
“ 1868	6,945,621
“ 1869	10,179,936
“ 1870	11,844,378
“ 1871	1,617,376
“ 1872	18,771,468
“ 1873	8,844,200
“ 1874	18,687,920
“ 1875	14,652,880
“ 1876	20,213,104
“ 1877	18,032,080
“ 1878, to Oct. 1st,	16,948,060
Total pages,	209,188,957

This is exclusive of the number of periodicals issued during all these years, which have not yet been figured up. The year showing the largest number of pages issued was 1876, which gives over twenty millions. But the report for the present year up to Oct. 1st, only three-quarters of the year, shows nearly seventeen millions; and should it continue at the same ratio to the end of the year, we should have more than twenty-two millions for this year, an excess of more than two millions over any previous year.