This construction of the phrase has been keenly disputed. Van der Linde says that the books were printed, but not from types—from blocks that had been _getté en molle_, or put into form, or put into readable shape, by the art of engraving. He cites authorities showing that the word _molle_ or _mould_ had been applied to forms of manuscript.[171] Dr. Van Meurs proposes a new construction—that _getté en molle_ has nothing to do either with types or blocks. “Who does not perceive, while reading the Cambray document, that in 1451, the term _getté en molle_ is used in contradistinction to _in paper_? Do not these terms make us rather think of books in loose sheets as opposed to sheets that are bound? What can _molle_ mean but form? What is a book _getté en molle_ but a book brought together in a form, or in a binding, in [p314] opposition to another book in paper, or in a paper cover?” This conjecture is reasonable. No one knows of an early edition of this book from engraved blocks. As the seller of one copy was a copyist we may conclude that both copies were written. Equally unsatisfactory to an unprejudiced reader is the misconstruction of the word printer in the list of the different arts or trades embraced by the Confraternity of St. John the Baptist, at Bruges. It has been inferred that the printers here noticed were printers of types, and that typographic printing was done in 1454, when the following list was written:[172] Librariers en boeckverkopers, or booksellers. Vinghettemakers, or painters in miniature. Scrivers en boucscrivers, or scriveners and copyists of books. Scoolemeesters, or schoolmasters. Prentervercoopers, or image sellers. Verlichters, or illuminators. Prenters, or printers. Boucbinders, or bookbinders. Riemmakers, or curriers who prepare skins for parchment-makers. Perkementmakers en fransynmakers, or makers of parchment. Guispelsniders, or makers of decorations for bound books. Scoolevrowen, or schoolmistresses. Lettersnyders, or engravers of letters. Scilders, or painters. Drochscherrers, or shearers of cloth. Beeldemakers, or makers of images.[173] We have here a careful and, probably, a complete specification of all trades contributing to the manufacture of books, but there is no mention of type-makers nor of typographers. [p315] In 1442 there was an organized society of book-makers in the city of Antwerp, known as the Fraternity of Saint Luke. Like the association of Bruges, it comprised every trade that contributed to the making of books. The trade of printer is in their list, as it is in that of the Confraternity of Saint John of Bruges; but in this list there is no mention of the makers or printers of types. The printers of the fraternities were, no doubt, the printers of playing cards, images and block-books.[174] The earliest notice of book-printing in the Netherlands is that of the _Cologne Chronicle_ of 1499, which is to this effect: