A specimen of printing types and ornaments from the Baltimore Type Foundry
A printed specimen book issued in 1832 by the Baltimore Type Foundry, printed in Baltimore by Lucas & Deaver, showing type founders' wares for printers and newspaper offices. Its pages are dense rows of small woodcut-style cuts, with numbered prices beside each, including animals, figures, flowers, hands, and decorative rules. A designer could take from them the compact, mixed-subject vocabulary of nineteenth-century American job printing, with its ornaments built to pair with type.
