Prosper Mérimée 15883 — Tamango. Illustrationen von Richard JANTHUR
Franz Schneider, 1922, 1e druk, Original full green crushed morocco by H. Sperling, Leipzig, after a design by Janthur, with gilt designs and lettering to both covers and spine, gilt decoration to board edges and patterned endpapers, First edition thus and the first volume in Franz Schneider's series Luxusgraphik Schneider. A particularly attractive example of German Expressionist book illustration, entirely designed by Richard Janthur (1883–1956), including the binding decoration, title-page and initial. The seven full-page original lithographs are individually monogrammed in pencil, in addition to the artist's signature in the colophon. Reference: Lang, Expressionismus, 153., Goed