Note 46 — INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER THE TYPES AND TYPEFOUNDING OF THE FIRST PRINTERS.

It will be understood that in each case the outline of the types being merely a depressed edge in the original, the black outline of the facsimiles represents shadow only, and not, as might appear at first glance, inked surface. M. Madden’s facsimile is apparently drawn. In the photograph facsimile of the “De laudibus” type, the distribution of black represents the distribution of shadow caused by the somewhat uneven or tilted indentation of the side of the type in the paper.