Cincinnati Type Foundry

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Inland Printer (1891)

Anon. "The Typefoundries of the United States: No. IV - The Cincinnati Typefoundry." The Inland Printer. Vol. 8, No. 11 (Aug. 1891): 1019.

Scanned by me from the original. Here are links to the other articles in this series .

1857. Specimens of Printing Types

David W. Peat has reprinted a selection from the 1857 Cincinnati specimen book. The title of the original is Specimens of Printing Types, Cast and For Sale at the Cincinnati Type Foundry The title on the cover of the reprint is "The Cincinnati Type Foundry: Selected Specimens from 1857." It was beautifully printed by Richard Hopkins at his Pioneer Press of West Virginia and is (in 2011) available from David Peat at 1225 Carroll White Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46219. 72pp with a new introduction by Hopkins.

[click image to read at The Hathi Trust]

1870. Specimen and Price List

The Cincinnati Type Foundry Co's Specimen and Price List. (Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Type Foundry Co., 1870.)

This specimen has been digitized by Google Books from the NY Public Library copy. It is available via Google Books or at The Hathi Trust (ID nyp.33433000823397). The icon at here links to the Hathi Trust version.

Here is a local copy of the Google Books version: cincinnati-1870-google-nypl--The_Cincinnati_Type_Foundry_Co_s_specime.pdf (31 Megabytes). Here is a local copy assembled from the Hathi Trust page images: cincinnati-1870-hathi-nyp-33433000823397-png.pdf (311 Megabytes).

[click image to read at The Internet Archive]

1882. Fifteenth Book

Fifteenth Book of Specimens (Compact Edition) from the Cincinnati Type Foundry . (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Type Foundry, 1882.)

A digital version of this book, including the original page scans, is available at The Internet Archive; the link at left goes there. Here is a local copy of the PDF version and the (nicer) DjVu version.

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1888. Seventeenth Book

The Seventeenth Book of Specimens from the Cincinnati Type Foundry. Compact Edition. (Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Type Foundry, 1888).

This specimen has been digitized by Google Books from the NY Public Library copy. It is available via Google Books or at The Hathi Trust (ID: nyp.33433006348324). The icon at here links to the Hathi Trust version.

Here is a local copy of the Google Books version: cincinnati-1888-17th-ed-google-nypl.pdf (62 Megabytes). Here is a local copy assembled from the Hathi Trust page images: cincinnati-1888-17th-ed-google-hathi-nyp-33433006348324-png.pdf (552 Megabytes).