Sale: 397 / Rare Books, Nov. 19./20. 2012 in Hamburg Lot 1104

Pan - Pan. 5 Tle. in 10 Bdn. 1895-1900


1104
Pan
Pan. 5 Tle. in 10 Bdn. 1895-1900
Estimate:
€ 16,000 / $ 17,120
Sold:
€ 15,360 / $ 16,435

(incl. surcharge)
Pan. Published by collective Pan. Editied by O. J. Bierbaum and J. Meier-Graefe. Years I-V in 10 vols. (complete, all published). With 106 orig. graphics, partly in colors (on 104 plates) by H. de Toulouse-Lautrec, P. Behrens, P. Signac, K. Kollwitz, M. Liebermann, H. van de Velde and many more, as well as 126 plates, some in colors, 2 music additions and very many illustrations in the text, some in colors. Berlin, Pan and (as of year II) Fontane 1895-1900. Late cloth (with mounted orig. wrappers in colors). Folio.

Complete series of the renowned and richly endowed art and literature magazine from around the turn of the century. -"Pan is different from other literature magazines, especially in terms of content (literature and art), and its artistic make" (Schlawe). - The magazine is "outstanding in it s folio format, entirely free from Renaissance and Gothic, spectacular through the demonic Pan head on its title..one of the most innovative examples of later German book culture" (transl. from Schauer)."Pan was the first significant German periodical of the Nineties devoted to contemporary art and literature." (Garvey/Wick) - Complete with all 22 issues, bound in 10 private cloth bindings. Contains all original works and art additions mentioned in index. Copy from the general edition on copper plate printing paper, published in an edition of 1100 and 1400 copies respectively; with the often lacking color lithograph 'Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender' by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . All art additions typographically inscribed in margin and printed on different types of paper, e.g. on Japon, Chine, Imperial Japon, laid paper and copper plate printing paper; some signed and monogrammed respectively in plate. - Contains, among others, the original prints by H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Delteil 102), P. Behrens, L. von Hofmann, A. Illies, M. Klinger (Singer 226; 244), K. Kollwitz (Klipstein 10 IIc), M. Liebermann (Schiefler 35 IVb 2, 42 IIb 2, 44 IIIb 2,49 b 2), E. Orlik and A. Rodin. - Copy with publisher's announcement (bound before vol. I/2) for the edition's continuation as of vol. II, with a list of Pan collective executive members, the publisher commission as well as a 5-page list of subscribers; Printed on creme laid paper. 4 spines foxed, binding somewhat loosened. Inside fine and clean and well preserved copy.

Söhn, HDO 525-530. - Bauch p. 236. - Dok. Bibl. I, 426. - Garvey/Wick 98. - Kirchner 15508. - Schlawe I, 48ff. - Schauer I, 20ff.

1 of 1100 resp. 1400 copies on copper plate printing paper. Containing 106 orig. prints, partly in color, by H. Toulouse-Lautrec, M. Klinger, K. Kollwitz, A. Rodin etc. Complete set of the periodical with all orig. prints and additions, containing the often missing orig. lithograph 'Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender' by H. Toulouse-Lautrec. - Bound in 10 volumes. Priv. cloth. 4 backs foxed; inner part clean and well preserved.




1104
Pan
Pan. 5 Tle. in 10 Bdn. 1895-1900
Estimate:
€ 16,000 / $ 17,120
Sold:
€ 15,360 / $ 16,435

(incl. surcharge)