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On certainty / by Ludwig Wittgenstein ; edited by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright ; the text in German, Über Gewissheit, translated by Denis Paul and G.E.M. Anscombe ; with an introduction by Arthur C. Danto, and twelve illustrations by Mel Bochner.

Accession number
PML 129779
Creator
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Published
San Francisco : Arion Press, 1991.
Credit line
Gift of Werner H. Kramarsky; 2006.
Notes
Translation of: Über Gewissheit.
English and German in opposite columns.
"This book is the thirty-fourth publication of the Arion Press. It was issued in an edition limited to three hundred numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies hors de commerce. The paper is Rives Heavyweight, a French mould-made sheet. The type is Plantin, composed and cast on Monotype machines by M & H Type. The planographic prints were produced from the artist's drawings on mylar, from which plates were engraved for printing, along with the text, by letterpress. The photoengravings were made by Harms Graphics. The design, typography, presswork, and binding were accomplished under the direction of Andrew Hoyem ..."--Colophon.
"Artist's statement" (p. [11]) signed by Bochner.
Title and illustrations printed in red, blue and black; other pages printed in blue and black.
Bound in 12 gatherings, the first of 8, the others of 6 leaves, in each of which the illustration (verso blank) and its caption leaf constitute the innermost bifolium. The first and last leaves are blank. Two further illustrations are pasted down covering the pastedown endpapers.
Library has copy no. 280.
Description
[148] p. : 12 ill. ; 38 cm.
Provenance
Werner H. Kramarsky.
Binding
Gray cloth; spine and covers with light cloth blue panels inset, printed in black and red. Issued in gray cloth slipcase.
Classification
Department