[f. Gr. αὐτο- (see AUTO-) self + τύμος type, impress, print, f. τυμ- to strike, after prototype, etc.]

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  1.  A ‘type’ of the thing itself, a true impress of the original; a reproduction in facsimile.

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1853.  Kingsley, Misc., I. 299. The utterance must be … the outward and visible autotype, of the spirit which animates it.

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1880.  Swinburne, Stud. Shaks., iii. 202. The type of Angelo … an autotype of the huge national vice of England.

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  2.  A process of permanent photographic printing, which reproduces photographs or works of art in monochrome; a facsimile produced by this process. Also attrib. or as adj.

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1869.  Pall Mall Gaz., Supp. 20 Dec., 1. It is illustrated with autotype and other photographs after engravings.

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1878.  Prospectus of the ‘Autotype Company.’ The public need no longer be content with fading photographs; ask for ‘Autotypes’ or ‘Chromotypes.’

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1881.  Athenæum, 16 April, 521/2. These days of autotype and heliogravure.

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