XII + 16 pages, etching by Conrad Waldstromer (* 1178 1266, imperial council, Reichsschultheiß zu Nürnberg) as frontispiece, 97 lithographs on 78 sheets (by HF Jütte), hand-colored by H. Gustav Brinckmann, half-parchment binding from the time approx. 21 × 34 cm (see Figure 5), illustrated inner cover and front pages, cover slightly bumped, one sheet with a backed tear on the side margin (approx. 2 cm), otherwise only minor signs of wear, very nice and firmly bound copy of this rare and richly illustrated edition
Excerpt from Wikipedia: "The Schembartlauf (to mhd. [Der] schëm (e) shadow, mask", schëmbart bearded mask "folk etymological Schönbart, hence also Schönbartlauf), until 1539 part of the Nuremberg tradition on Carnival, is first documented in 1449. According to legend After a craftsmen's uprising, the Nuremberg butchers were rewarded for their loyalty to the Nuremberg Council with the privilege of holding a Zämertanz on Shrovetide and, among other things, facial to be allowed to wear asks. The original Zämertanz was a performance by the butchers in the tradition of the many artisan dances, in which the dancing men formed a long intertwined chain. Here sausage rings, probably made of leather, were sometimes used as a link from man to man, while other guilds also used swords, hoops or wooden bows with flowers. Probably the Schembartlauf originally arose from the accompanying protective force of the butcher's dance and then became independent. The Schembartläufer, masked and singing shoddy songs, wandered through Nuremberg at Mardi Gras. Their dance was more of a run in which simple hopping figures like figures of eight and mills were formed. The runners were accompanied by men who rode horse dummies. The patrician youth of Nuremberg bought the right to participate (it was probably essentially about the right to mask themselves) from the butchers and thus used the opportunity to present themselves imaginatively. The robes became more and more precious, the Schembartlauf became a great spectacle over the years. In addition to the dance group, individual runners appeared in wild costumes, and from 1475 the Schembart runners pulled a so-called hell "through the Nuremberg streets, a vehicle on sled runners, with the symbolism of which they more and more mocked the social conditions and, in the final phase, the strict Protestant regiment Weimar, Society of Bibliophiles, 1908 (number 96 out of 500 copies), 1908.
