Also Sprach Zarathustra, 1908

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Medium

bound volume containing four parts, each with a separate title, head- and tail-piece printed in relief in purple and gold as well as one double-page ornamental title for the volume; text printed in black with gold decorative stamps, type designed by G. Lemmen and Count Harry Kessler.

Dimensions

book: 37.8 × 26 × 3 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/4 × 1 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as an Anonymous Gift

Accession Number

2013.169.5

Artists / Makers

Henry van der Velde (designer) Belgian, 1863 - 1957

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (author) German, 1844 - 1900

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Inscription

inside upper cover in graphite upper right: 83-62-5; center: Harvard - "Turn of the Century" No. 115; inside first fly leaf upper left: 2.22.-(underlined); 63 (encircled); inside lower cover upper right: 2781/861 / DONN/goKN8LR; lower right: 133P.1

Marks and Labels

Inselverlag publisher's mark on the 3rd free-endpaper: Lugt L.2861a

Provenance

Ars Libri; acquired in 1983 by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston (bookplate); (Christie's via Ursus Books, sale October 29, 2013, New York, lot 861); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.