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Harvard Classics CELEBRATED HISTORICAL BINDINGS Complete Set Scarce 1st Edition 50 books (very good condition) 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 HISTORIC SET Bound in ten different historical bindings : Volumes 1-5 in brown cloth are based on a 16th-17th century English binding imprinted with "HENRICVS II DEI C GA R" and other gilt decorations * Vol. 1. FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN * His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin * Journal, by John Woolman * Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn * Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS * The Apology, Phædo and Crito of Plato * The Golden Sayings of Epictetus * The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius * Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWN * Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon * Areopagitica & Tractate on Education, by John Milton * Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne * Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON * Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton * Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON * Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson Volumes 6-10 in red cloth are based on a 17th century French Binding executed for Louis XIII * Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS * Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns * Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST * The Confessions of Saint Augustine * The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis * Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS * Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus * Oedipus the King & Antigone of Sophocles * Hippolytus & The Bacchæ of Euripides * The Frogs of Aristophanes * Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY * On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero * Letters, by Pliny the Younger * Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH * Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith Volumes 11-15 in green cloth are based on a French binding done in the 16th century Grolier Manner * Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN * The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin * Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES * Lives, by Plutarch * Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL * Æneid, by Virgil * Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, Part 1, CERVANTES * Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes * Vol. 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON * The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan * The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton Volumes 16-20 in dark red cloth are based on a 16th century French binding executed for Jean Grolier * Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS * Stories from the Thousand and One Nights * Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON * Fables, by Æsop * Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm * Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen * Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA * All for Love, by John Dryden * The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan * She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith * The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley * A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning * Manfred, by Lord Byron * Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE * Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe * Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe * Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE * The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri Volumes 21-25 in maroon cloth are based on a 19th century French binding done for Napoleon * Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI * I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni * Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER * The Odyssey of Homer * Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA * Two Years before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. * Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE * On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke * Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE * Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill * Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle Volumes 26-30 red binding are based on a 16th century French binding done for Henry III * Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA * Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca * Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille * Phædra, by Jean Racine * Tartuffe, by Molière * Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing * Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller * Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY * Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN * Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN * The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin * Vol. 30. FARADY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC * Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology Volumes 31-35 in blue cloth are based on a 17th century French binding executed by Antoine Ruette * Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI * The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini * Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS * Montaigne, Sainte-beuve, Renan, etc. * Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS * Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern * Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES * Discourse on Method, by René Descartes * Letters on the English, by Voltaire * On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau * Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes * Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD * The Chronicles of Jean Froissart * The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory * A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison Volumes 36-39 in dark green cloth are based on a 16th century English design by John Hill for Edward VI * Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER * The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli * The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper * Utopia, by Sir Thomas More * The Ninety-Five Thesis, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther * Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELY, HUME * Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke * Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley * An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume * Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR * The Oath of Hippocrates * Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré * On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey * The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner * The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes * On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister * Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur * Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell * Vol. 39. FAMOUS PREFACES * Prefaces and Prologues Volumes 40-45 in mauve cloth are based on a 19th century English design by Aubrey Beardsley * Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1 CHAUCER TO GRAY * Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD * Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN * Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS * American Historical Documents: 1000-1904 * Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1 * Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius * Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes * Christian I: Luke & Acts * Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2 * Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns * Buddhist: Writings * Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita * Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran Volumes 46-50 in reddish-brown cloth are based on a 17th century Dutch binding done for Magnus of Amsterdam * * Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1 * Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe * Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare * Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2 * The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker * The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson * Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher * The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster * A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger * Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL * Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal * Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA * Epic and Saga: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel & The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs * Vol. 50 INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES An excellent addition to any rare book collection. 2,500.00 Call, email, or text Thank you, Chris

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