HARVARD CLASSICS Set ~ RARE Full Leather 1st Ed. ~ 52 Volumes

Description: HARVARD CLASSICSIN FULL LEATHERIN 51 VOLUMES1909 (Vols. 1-25) / 1910 (Vols. 26-LECTURES)+READING GUIDE (1930) P. F. COLLIER & SON 1st EDITION / 1st PRINTING #188 VOLUMES MEASURE8 1/4" TALL X 5 3/4" DEEP ________________________________________ SET'S IN NEAR-FINE to FINE CONDITION. ALL BOARDS ARE SQUARE, TIGHT, THE PAGES CLEAN AND BRIGHT. THE LEATHER ON THE SPINES IS SOMEWHAT DRIER THAN THAT OF THE BOARDS BUT ARE STILL SUPPLE (in fact, the leather boards are in excellent condition). AND THE DRIER AREAS OF THE SPINES ARE TOWARD THE TOP, NOT THE BOTTOM ... WHICH IS INDICATIVE OF AIRFLOW PULLING MOISTURE FROM THE SLIGHT OPENINGS AT THE TOP. EVEN WITH THE LOSS OF SOME SURFACE LEATHER, THIS WAS A SET THAT WAS TAKEN VERY GOOD CARE OF (note the lack of sunning). THE TOP PAGE EDGES ARE GOLD GILT, TISSUE GUARDS OPPOSITE FRONTISPIECES. THE BOARDS ARE SEMI-FLEXIBLE. THE 1930 READING GUIDE WAS ADDED BY THE PRIOR OWNER. NO MUSTY / NO SMOKY / NO FOUL ODORSNO BOOKPLATES / NO FOXING ___________________________________ The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time. Covering every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century. In 1909/1910, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, put together an extraordinary library of "all the books needed for a real education". "Dr. Charles W.Eliot, the former Harvard president who edited the series, maintained that if one read just 15 minutes a day from the 51 volumes he assembled, it would constitute "a good substitute for a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion." Reading Guide. This honored encyclopedia of literature encompasses more than 2,000 years of the world's greatest poetry, drama, history, philosophy, scripture, and more. The full set brings together more than 1,850 works by over 300 masters of thought and letters, and includes Dr. Eliot's Reader's Guide and a General Index containing upwards of 18,000 entries. "My purpose in selecting- The Harvard Classics was to provide the literary materials from which a careful and persistent reader might gain a fair view of the progress of man observing , recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century. Within the limits of fifty volumes, containing about 22,000 pages, I was to provide the means of obtaining such a knowledge of ancient and modern literature as seems essential to the twentieth century idea of a cultivated man. The best acquisition of a cultivated man is a liberal frame of mind or way of thinking; but there must be added to that possession acquaintance with the prodigious store of recorded discoveries, experiences, and reflections which humanity in its intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization has acquired and laid up. From that store I proposed to make such a selection as any intellectually ambitious American family might use to advantage, even if their early opportunities of education had been scanty." ~~~ THE HARVARD CLASSICS ~~~The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The journal of John Woolman; Fruits of solitude [by] William Penn. Plato. The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito; The golden sayings of Epictetus; The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Bacon, Francis, viscount St. Albans. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on education, by John Milton; Religio medici, by Sir Thomas Browne. Milton, John. The complete poems. Emerson, Ralph W. Essays and English traits. Burns, Robert. The poems and songs. Augustinus Aurelius, Saint, bp. of Hippo. The confessions.; The imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, tr. by W. Benham. Nine Greek dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. Cicero, M. Tullius. Letters, with his treaties of friendship and old age, and Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus. Smith, Adam. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Darwin, Charles R. The origin of species. Plutarchus. Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and Anthony. Vergilius Maro, Publius. Virgil's Aeneid. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quixote, Part I. Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's progress; The lives of John Donne and George Herbert, by Izaak Walton. 16. Arabian nights. Stories from the Thousand and one nights. Folk-lore and fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen. Modern English drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron. Goethe, Johann W. von. Faust, part I, Egmont, Hermann and Dorothea; Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus. Dante Alighieri. The Divine comedy; Hell, Purgatory, Paradise. Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi (The betrothed). Homerus. The Odyssey. Dana, Richard H. Two years before the mast and Twenty-four years after. Burke, Edmund. On taste, On the sublime and beautiful, Reflections on the French revolution, A letter to a noble lord. Mill, John S. Autobiography, Essay on liberty; Thomas Carlyle: Characteristics, Inaugural addresses, Essay on Scott. Continental drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lessing, Schiller. English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay ... [c1910] Essays, English and American. Darwin, Charles R. The voyage of the Beagle. Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. Literary and philosophical essays, French, German and Italian. Voyages and travels; ancient and modern. French and English philosophers Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes. Chronicle and romance Froissart, Malory, Holinshed. Machiavelli, Niccolo. The prince; Utopia, by Sir Thomas More; Ninety-five theses, Address to the German nobility, Concerning Christian liberty, by Martin Luther. English philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Locke, Berkeley, Hume. Scientific papers: physiology, medicine, surgery, geology. Prefaces and prologues to famous books. English poetry. American historical documents, 1000-1904. Sacred writings. Elizabethan drama. Pascal, Blaise. Thoughts; Letters; minor works. Epic and saga: Beowulf; the song of Roland; The destruction of Dá Derga's hostel; The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs. The Harvard classics. The editor's introduction; reader's guide; index to the first lines of poems, songs & choruses, hymns & psalms; general index; chronological index. FREE SHIPPING VIA FEDEX GROUND / HOME DELIVERY ONLY, INCLUDES SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION, & WILL BE INSURED FOR THE FULL AMOUNT DEFINITIONS OF CONDITION : VERY FINE (AS NEW/MINT) ~ Very Fine means the book is in the same immaculate condition as when it emerged from the bindery. There are no defects or marks, and the dust jacket (if it was issued with one) must be perfect and without any tears. In short, it is a copy that is close to perfect in every respect. It should be noted that in the real world, Very Fine books are relatively uncommon, and that most Antiquarian Booksellers use Fine as the highest condition grading. FINE ~ Fine is marginally less than perfect, and may designate a book that is still new, or a book that has been carefully read. 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