Live auction - Lot 479
[Van de Velde]
Ecce Homo. (Titel, Eindband und Ornamente zeichnete Henry van de Velde).
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Lot description
(Leipzig, Insel-Verlag), [1908]
Large 8vo.
Binding designed by Henry van de Velde : publ. chamois leather, gilt tool on upper cover (fox.), gilt titled flat spine, gilt endpapers, gilt top, modern box covered with brown cloth.
First edition. Binding design, typographic lay-out and ornaments by Henry van de Velde. Ed. limited to 1250 copies. One of the 150 on Japan paper (n. 133), with the splendid doubled-page title, smaller ornaments and some words printed in gold and black and with the leather binding matching with Japan paper copies (impression in brown and black and half vellum binding for ordinary copies). "Smaller and quieter than the 'Zarathustra', the 'Ecce Homo' features a decorative title-page combining van de Velde's swelling abstract ornaments with his own lettering" (The Turn of a Century). Modern bookplate. Ref. Henry van de Velde in de collecties van de KBR, 1993, 84. - The Turn of a Century 116.