"Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
1908
Artists
Description
Letterpress text, designs and illustrations printed in red, gold and black inks
Dimensions
closed: 37.6 × 25.5 × 3 cm (14 13/16 × 10 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.) pages: 37 × 24.8 cm (14 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Provenance
[L'Art Ancien S.A., Zurich], sold; to Charles L. Kuhn, Cambridge, 1957, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1957
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