found: Its Rooms of the Printers' Free Library, no. 3 Chambers Street, New York, February, 1854, 1854:t.p. ("The Printers' Free Library," under the direction of the N.Y. Typographical Society; estab. 1823 as the library of the New-York Typographical Society; now in operation nearly four years)
found: Its Catalogue of the Printers' Library, under the direction of the New York Typographical Society, 1852:p. 4 of cover (the library was commenced in 1823, for the use of members of the society; and, with the addition of a reading room, was opened to the trade generally in June 1850)
found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Printers' Free Library; usage: Printers' Free Library; note: estab. 1823 as the library of the New-York Typographical Society; added reading room and called Printers' Library [no publs. in LC data base] 1850-52; called Printers' Free Library after 1852)