Dear Terry,
There seems to be some confusion here. I was indeed speaking about letterpress technology. This is the form of typesetting used roughly from the original Gutenberg press through the linotype and later technologies that emerged in the late 19th century. In letterpress, the original type is set in hot lead just as it is in later hot lead technologies. Type or leading also filled every section of the chase in letterpress technology. But the type is not cast directly. Individual units of type are stored in a printer's box, and set by hand into the chase. Those books had to be planned carefully as much as linotype or other books, and setting footnotes for anything other than very short amounts of information was difficult.
Full details in my reply to Gunnar.
Yours,
Ken
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