Alternate Title(s)

• National Typographical Association Half-Yearly Report (COPAC)

Related Journals

• Provincial Typographical Circular
  • This may be a version of the Provincial Typographical Societies' Monthly Circular

Start Date(s)

• 1874 (COPAC)

End Date(s)

• 1912 (COPAC)

City

• Manchester, England

Type of Content

• "Report on local branches, income and expenditures of each branch of the Typographical Association (summary of contributions, entrances, etc., with details of membership, summary of expenditure by branches, summary of remittances by branches to the E.C., and of balances held by branches, summary of branch returns), the treasurer in account with the association, stock accounts, attendances of executive council, obituaries, registration of members" (Waterloo)

Notes

• "The E.C. [Executive Council], during the half-year to which this Report refers, have been very fully occupied in endeavouring to advance the principles of the Association, either by opposing encroachments and violation of rules, or by assisting members to obtain rights which they were justly entitled to" (29 Dec. 1888--Waterloo)
• COPAC lists this periodical as beginning in 1874, but the June 1888 number states that it is the seventy-eighth such publication (putting the first number in 1848)
• Publication location variously listed as Manchester and Salford (Waterloo)
• There is also a National Typographical Association Half-Yearly Report associated with the Scottish branch of the Association, supposedly running from 1845-46 (Waterloo)

Subject Categories

• Printing Trade
• Trade Unions
• Typography

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• COPAC
• The Waterloo Directory (online)

Works Cited

• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, edited by John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009.