Harvard Classics 51 Volume Set 1909-1910 1st EDITION Very Good Condition

Harvard Classics 51 Volume Set 1909-1910 1st EDITION Very Good Condition (image 3/[null, null, null, null])

Harvard Classics 51 Volume Set 1909-1910 1st EDITION Very Good Condition (image 4/[null, null, null, null])

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I borrowed all the information below from another listing, but I have the same set of books. While I did not go through every book and every page, all that I opened were clean tight pages. There were a few places where the previous owner had put newspaper clippings that had caused some yellowing to those pages. As you can see from the photos the spines are bright gold gilt with dark green bindings. The front and back are not as dark green as the spines, but are for the most part also very clean. There is some slight bumping to some of the corners and one or two of the covers have some light crinkling. They are dated 1909 or 1910 except the lecture book which is the unnumbered one (51 of the lot). It is from 1914. I will ship these media rate, most likely in two or three different boxes to cut down on the wieght and prevent possible damage from them being dropped.HARVARD CLASSICSCOMPLETE IN 51 VOLUMESP. F. COLLIER & SON1909 {vols. 1-24} & 1910 {25-50,+ Lecture1st PRINTING IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. The bindings are tight and pages clean and tight.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."51 Volume Harvard Classic 1909-10 set:1. Plutarch's Lives2. Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius3. Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne4. Milton's Complete Poems in English5. Emerson's Essays and English Traits6. Robert Burns' Poems and Songs7. St. Augustine - Confessions and The Imitation of Christ8. Nine Greek Dramas9. Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny10. Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations11. Darwin - The Origin of Species12. Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn13. Virgil's Aeneid 14. Cervantes - Don Quixote15. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; Walton's Life of Donne and... read more

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