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  • CARL FASOL, THE STIGMATYPIST. To the Editor: CHICAGO, ILL., May 9, 1911. Perhaps it may not be of enough importance to notice it, but there seems to be an error in an article on “Portraiture by Typesetting Machine,” in your May issue, page 263. The name Carl Hasol appears there, while your source of information (the British and Colonial Printer and Stationer) has it as Carl Hasol Pflege. I believe you are both wrong, and that one Carl Fasol is meant, unless there was a printer who antedated him, with an almost similar name, which seems unlikely. This Carl Fasol, about twenty-seven years ago, produced, at Vienna, several quarto albums of “stigmatype” specimens, under the title “Sammlung von Kunst-Sätzen,” showing portraits (a notable one being one of Gutenberg), views, and border and ornament designs, set up of “em” characters of a small type-body, carrying dots of various weights. Some of the work was really beautiful, but its main quality was the evidence it gave of the infinite pains this compositor took to get up the matter. I am told that he tried to eke out a living by peddling his albums among the craft. I possessed copies of Volumes II and III of these specimens, but several years ago gave them into the care of the St. Louis Public Library. As readers may have supposed that the two pictures on page 263, May issue, were merely fanciful sketches, I will state — having seen them previously in a German publication, with names attached — that they are intended to represent the authors, Tolstoi and Ibsen. A further reduction would show them to be very faithful half-tone portraits. N. J. WERNER.

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