Nietzsche, Friedrich
£813
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Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
Thus spake Zarathustra: a book for all and none; translated by Alexander Tille. London: Henry and Co., 1896. First English edition, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, blind stamped roundels at corners of boards, repeated in gilt on the spine, uncut, spine faded with rubbing at head and tail, verso and rector of free endpapers discoloured, with the bookplate of R. J. Dickinson
Footnote
Note: Issued as volume VIII of The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, this translation was published both in London and in New York by Macmillan in 1896. Tille, a German philosopher, was appointed Lecturer of German Literature at the University of Glasgow in December 1890, as well as being granted the privilege of special reader at the university library. Tille returned to Germany in 1900, due to disputes with students over the Boer War