Alternate Title(s)

• Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxilaries of Great Britain and Ireland (COPAC)

Alternate Subtitle(s)

• Half-yearly Report (COPAC)
• Quarterly Report (COPAC)

Related Journals

• Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers of Great Britain and Ireland

Start Date(s)

• 1880 (Lawrence)

End Date(s)

• 1968 (Lawrence)

Editor(s)

• Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers
• Foxwell, Sydney H. E.

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers
• H. E. Harberd

City

• Manchester, England (COPAC)

Notes

• “Founded in 1880, following a plea for the amalgamation of various lithographic and printing societies. This had come from the two largest organizations in Bradford and Manchester. An organization for lithographic printers, known as the Central Association of Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printers, had existed as early as 1860” (Lawrence 14)
• Note: The Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Artists is a separate association not affiliated with the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers (Waterloo)

Subject Categories

• Lithography
• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions

Issues

• Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers of Great Britain and Ireland 1.1 (1880)
• Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers of Great Britain and Ireland 2.2 (1881)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” p.1
• Gennard and Bain p. 8
• Lawrence p. 14
• Skingsley p. 3, pp. 44-47
• Sproat passim
• The Waterloo Directory (online)

Works Cited

• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• Gennard, John, and Peter Bain. A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades. Routledge, 1990.
• Lawrence, David Haldane. “Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers.” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Marysa Demoor and Laurel Brake, Academia P, 2009, p. 14. Google Books.
• Skingsley, T. A. “Technical Training and Education in the English Printing Industry.” Journal of the Printing Historical Society vol. 14, 1978/80, pp. 1-58.
• Sproat, Thomas. The History and Progress of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxiliaries of Great Britain and Ireland, 1880-1930. Cooperative Printing Society, 1930.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.