Each monthly issue dated the 15th of each month until Vol. 3, no. 28 (15 May 1841) ; from Vol. 3, no. 29 (1 June 1841) onwards, each monthly issue dated the 1st of each month.
Lacking Volume 2. 1840.
Later titles: Art-journal (London, England : 1849-1912).
Summary Note
The periodical was founded in 1839 by Hodgson & Graves, print publishers, 6 Pall Mall, with the title the Art Union Monthly Journal (or The Art Union), the first issue of 750 copies appearing 15 February 1839. Hodgson & Graves hired Samuel Carter Hall as editor, assisted by James Dafforne. Hall soon became principal proprietor, but he was unable to turn a profit on his own. The London publisher George Virtue then purchased into Hall's Art Union Monthly Journal in 1848, retaining Hall as editor. Virtue renamed the periodical The Art Journal in 1849. The Art Journal ceased publication in 1912. An American edition of The Art Journal was published in New York from 1881 to 1887 by D. Appleton & Co.
Reproductions
Digital copies of all volumes of The Art Union (1839-1848) and The Art Journal (1849-1912) can be browsed and searched online via Internet Archive digital library: https://archive.org/details/pub_art-journal-us