1198 - Pan.

Pan. Published by the Pan cooperative. Responsible editors O.J.Bierbaum (literature) and J. Meier-Graefe (art). First (to) fifth volume. 21 issues in 10 volumes. Berlin, publisher Pan 1895-1900. fol. With 106 original prints, 126 plates, two music supplements and numerous text illustrations as well as book decoration. Orig.-Ldr. with gilt-embossed cover vignette (year 1896) and brown hardcover with blind-embossed spine titles (illustrated original wrappers bound in). Dokumentations-Bibliothek I, 426, Schauer I, 20 ff. Schlawe I, 48 ff. Söhn HDO 525, 526-530 - One of 70 num. of the special edition on copperplate paper by E. Obst & Co., Strasbourg and Berlin, the plates mostly on Kaiserl. Japan by R. Wagner in Berlin. - Very good and complete copy with all original prints, including the important color lithograph "Mad. Marcelle Lender en buste" by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. - With the color covers with the Pan head after Franz Stuck, all title pages and tables of contents. - "The most exquisite German magazine in terms of its layout; its main merit lies in the promotion of the new book art, which essentially began with it in Germany. . What distinguishes 'Pan' from other literary journals is its comprehensive content (literature and art), its artistic intention and its layout" (F. Schlawe). - With original prints by Peter Behrens, Otto Eckmann, Ludwig von Kalckreuth, Max Klinger, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, Hans Olde, August Rodin, Paul Signac, Otto Ubbelohde and Henry van de Velde, among others. - ╔Including: Pan.╗ Prospect book. List of contents and members of the three years 1895, 1896, 1897 of the magazine "Pan". Berlin 1898. hardcover. - The 1896 volume printed entirely on Kaiserl. Japan and in the original publisher's binding with a signed original lithograph by Franz Naager. - The leather binding slightly rubbed in places, the covers of the half-leather bindings and cuts somewhat brownstained, a very nice copy; all original prints free of stains.