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"Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche

1908

Artists

Henry van de VeldeArtist
Friedrich NietzscheAuthor
Insel VerlagPublisher

Description

Letterpress text, designs and illustrations printed in red, gold and black inks

Classification
Books
Technique
Letterpress
Medium
Letterpress with parchment binding
Culture
German
Century
20th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Busch-Reisinger Museum

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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