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Additional authors

1. Bochner, Mel, 1940-2025
2. Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret)
3. Wright, G. H. von (Georg Henrik), 1916-
4. Paul, Denis
5. Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013
6. Arion Press. prt

Description

1. [143] p. : ill.; 38 cm.

Subject

1. Certainty

Genre/Form

1. Typefaces (Type evidence) – Plantin.

Call number

1. *KP+ (Arion) 92-109

Note

1. Translation of: Über Gewissheit; German and English in parallel columns.
2. "The thirty-fourth publication of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
3. Originally published: Oxford : Blackwell, 1969.
4. "Planographic prints were produced from the artist's drawings on mylar, from which plates were engraved for printing ... by letterpress"--Colophon. The ill. consist of numbers printed in black on a grid printed in red. Two ill. (numbers only, in black and red) on paste downs.
5. Binding: Publisher's gray cloth with printed light-gray cloth inlays. Issued in slipcase.

Local note

1. 326 copies printed in black, blue and red on Rives Heavyweight mould-made paper from Plantin type. No. 141 of 300 numbered copies offered for sale; signed in pencil by the artist on p. [9].

Author

1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Title

1. On certainty / by Ludwig Wittgenstein ; edited by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright ; translated by Denis Paul and G.E.M. Anscombe ; with an introduction by Arthur C. Danto and twelve illustrations by Mel Bochner.

Imprint

1. San Francisco : Arion Press, 1991.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Bochner, Mel, 1940-2025.
2. Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret)
3. Wright, G. H. von (Georg Henrik), 1916-
4. Paul, Denis.
5. Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013.
6. Arion Press. Printer

Research call number

1. *KP+ (Arion) 92-109