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First Edition Harvard Classics Complete Set 51 Volumes January 1909/10 - $560 (Westminster)

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Pictured on pages 3,4,5, are the published dates for Volume 1, Volume 26 and Lectured Volume.

The previous owner did attached book plates to the inside front cover. (or ex libris, from the Latin meaning "from the books of").
Couldn't find any writing inside any of the books.
Harvard Classics Complete Set 51 Volumes First Edition (The Five Foot Shelf Of Books) – January 1, 1909/10
The Harvard Classics is a 51-volume anthology of classic literature from Western civilization. The set was compiled and edited by Charles W. Eliot in 1909.
The first 25 volumes were published in 1909, and the remaining 25 were published in 1910. Lectures on the series was published in 1914 to complete the 51 Volumes
The set is also known as "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf".

32,461 Pages total

The volumes (1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn (2) Plato, Epictetus, Marcus, Aurelius (3) Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne (4) Complete Poems in Milton (5) Essays and English Emerson (6) Poems and Burns (7) Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ (8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny (10) Wealth of Adam Smith (11) Origin of Darwin (12) Plutarch's Lives (13) Aeneid Virgil (14) Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes (15)Pilgrim's Progress. Donne and Herbert. Bunyan, Walton (16) The Thousand and One Nights (17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (18) Modern English Drama (19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe (20) The Divine Dante (21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni (22) The Homer (23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana (24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke (25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle (26) Continental Drama (27) English Sidney to Macaulay (28) Essays. English and American (29) Voyage of the Darwin (30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie (31) Benvenuto, Cellini (32) Literary and Philosophical Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini (33) Voyages and Travels (34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes (35) Chronicle and Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (36) Machiavelli, More, Luther (37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume (38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur (39) Famous Prefaces (40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray (41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald (42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman (43) American Historical Documents (44) Sacred Writings 1 (45) Sacred Writings 2 (46) Elizabethan Drama 1 (47) Elizabethan Drama 2 (48) Thoughts and Minor Pascal (49) Epic and Saga (50) Introduction, Readers Guide, Indexes (--) Lectures.

These books are an excellent condition for their age

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