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Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Henry Van de Velde. Nietzsche’s Self-Congratulatory Masterpiece Explaining: “Why I Am So Wise” NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Ecce homo (Behold the Man). Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1908. 1 leaf + TPs + 7-154 + [155] = Inhalt + [157] = “Exemplar” page, Square Quarto. First Edition. Schaberg 61b Released in an edition of 1,250 copies: 150 on Japanese velin and 1,100 on parchment. Double-spread art nouveau title page illustrated by Henry Van de Velde. “Van de Velde developed all his decorative elements from the logic of the curve and reverse curve and by covered surfaces and plain surfaces. This brings the text and the decorations into an ideally close connection with each other” (Hofstatter, Art Nouveau, p. 100). Copies were so expensive that it was dubbed the "bank director's edition" (Schaberg, The Nietzsche Canon, p. 185). First edition of Nietzsche's apologia, written as a pre-emptive defense against his interpreters, though… Read More