[002688] Nietzsche, Friedrich. UNZEITGEMASSE BETRACHTUNGEN ERSTES STUCK: DAVID STRAUSS DER BEKENNER UND SCHRIFTSTELLER. Leipzig: E. W. FRITZSCH, 1886. First Edition, Second Issue. (2=title)+101+(1=advertisements) pp. First edition (Fritzsch, 1873) 1000 copies. Sold to Schmeitzner in 1874 and purchased back in 1886, when 212 were still unsold. Using the old quires and adding a new title-page a second issue was created, of which this is a copy. BOUND WITH: Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen Zweites Stuck: Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie fur das Leben. VI+101+1pp. Original first edition (Fritzsch) of 1000 copies in 1874. Same transactions as for part 1, however in 1886 351 copies left for the second issue. BOUND WITH: Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen Drittes Stuck: Schopenhauer als Erzieher. 113+1pp. Original first edition (Schmeitzner) of 1000 copies in 1875. 350 remaining copies sold to Fritzsch in 1886, second issue with new title-page. BOUND WITH: Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen Viertes Stuck: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. Original first edition 1500 copies with Schmeitzner in 1876, of which 800 incorrectly marked "Zweite Auflage". 768 copies re-issued in 1886 by Fritzsch, also with Zweite Auflage on the title. Schaberg 46, 47, 48 and 49. BOUND WITH: Vorwort des Herausgebers zur 2. Auflage. III-XV pp. This consists of an introduction by Peter Gast completed with an unpublished introduction by Nietzsche from 1888, here published for the first time.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 introductions also are included in the second edition of the 4 UB in 1893. Separate copies were sold as well, as is mentioned by Hoffmann (1991, p 718); also 3 such Separatdrucke are listed in Rudolf Steiners library (same source, p 721). For evident reasons the title page is not bound in. The introduction starts to state that pencil corrections by Nietzsche to the first edition are taken into account in the second. This naturally is only confusing in the present binding, as here (uncorrected) first editions are included. All 5 works bound together in grey halfcloth from around 1900 with marbled boards and red marroquin title. Some damage to title, browning of first and last 3 pages, foxing of some quires. Solid binding. A bizarre combination; the Titelauflagen of the 4 UB are rare, Separatdrucke of the introduction (in fact a first edition of part of Ecce Homo, 16 years preceeding the Insel-edition, which is generally considered first) not seen very much, and the present combination a possibly unique copy.