Nürnbergisches Schönbart-Buch und Gesellenstechen : aus einem alten Manuscript zum Druck befördert und mit benöthigten Kupfern versehen
A 1765 German book printed in Jena, by Georg Andreas Will, that publishes an old manuscript of Nuremberg's Schönbart carnival procession and the Gesellenstechen tournament, prepared for the press with engraved plates. Its pages are numbered tables of engraved figures: costumed masked performers holding staves and carrying shields with heraldic arms, alongside processional floats and carts. A designer could draw on the dense, regular grid layouts, the patterned checkered costumes, and the crisp hatched line engraving of the figures.
