1837 G. G. Cunningham VIII. 240 In 1796 he undertook the literary editorship of the ‘Monthly Magazine’, which he enriched to a great extent with his own pieces.
1932 H. Nicolson 23 Feb. (1966) 110 Leonard Woolf has an idea that I should take on the literary editorship of the New Statesman.
2000 (Nexis) 23 Aug. After becoming the TLS's poetry and fiction editor, literary editorships followed at The Observer and The Independent on Sunday.