[002671] Nietzsche, Friedrich. UNZEITGEMASSE BETRACHTUNGEN. Leipzig: Naumann, 1893. Second edition. Editor Peter Gast. Two volumes in which all 4 UB. XV+(2)+206+(2) and (2)+205+(3) pp. Original halfleather with matching brown decoration of boards, endpapers and edges. Gilt title on spine. Boards and spine rubbed, heads and tail of volume II damaged. Further solid copies. Bookplate of J von Busse at front pastedown endpaper of both volumes. The pages I-XV consist of an introduction by Peter Gast and an unpublished introduction by Nietzsche from 1888, here published for the first time. Gast does not mention the source, but the text is identical to the pages 69 thru 75 of Ecce Homo, first in full published in 1908. Evidently Gast took this fragment from the textcopy, which Nietzsche approved for printing. It is known, that Gast was in possession of such a copy. The last text thus preceedes the final first publication of Ecce Homo (Insel Verlag, 1908) by 15 years. Another rare aspect of this copy is its binding. This type of binding is frequently seen on GrossOktav volumes of the Werke as edited by Koegel and Seidl in later years. In some copies a sticker of bookbinder Hubel & Denck is found. Also in some copies stickers of booksellers are present. In our book 2627 both types of stickers are found. Bound copies are offered in Naumann advertisements in later years, which are identical to this binding. The advertisement in the present volume II offers bound copies "in Halbfranzband mit Goldruckenpressung", which must refer to the binding of this copies. As an Einzeldruck this title was still offered in the ads to 1898 Gedichte und Sprüche; it was only reprinted in 1904. For obvious reasons those later copies however come without the Gast Vorwort, which in those copies also is not stated on the [thus new] titlepage. An example of such a variant copy is bound before book 23565.