PUBLISHERS BINDING BY HÜBEL & DENCK

After 1892 many copies of Nietzsche titles published by Naumann come in identical halfleather bindings. A view of the upper board is:

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Endpapers have a matching decoration [see the picture of the booksellers ticket below], that is also applied in ink to the edges. The spine initially must have been as dark as the binding edge of the upper board, however often has brightened quite handsomely.

The binder is identified by a binders ticket occurring at the blank verso of the ffep in some copies:

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This same copy also has a bookselers ticket:

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Thus showing that it did not go to the binder from a retail customer for private binding of a single copy.

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Further the Naumann inventory on the 7^th October 1893 lists bound [to the left] and wrappered copies [to the right] seperately. 73 bound copies of MA II is the highest number of bound copies in the entire list.

The list thus shows, that Naumann actually had bound copies in stock, and that binding batches possibly amounted to approx. 100 copies, as further substantiated in the research note on the history of titles.