LOT OF 16 The HARVARD CLASSICS 1909-1914 ALUMNI AND LIMITED EDITION (#4001)

Description: LOT of SIXTEEN (16) - The HARVARD CLASSICS 1909 & 1910 ALUMNI EDITION / LIMITED EDITION (#4001) including VOLUMES 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 30, 37, 45, 46 and Essays. Part of a 50 Volume Set. The Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is an original limited edition collection of world literature of which this set is NO. 4001. The 16 volumes are bound with gilt edges on top page edges and deckle edges on the other three page edges, also with tissue paper over the illustration. This edition was published by the P.F. Collier & Son Company in the United States. The set is authored by William Allen Neilson, Ph.D., with Charles W. Eliot as the editor. This collection is a must-have for book collectors and literature enthusiasts. The Harvard Classics include classic works from different topics such as fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. This edition is a vintage collectible. These Limited Edition Volumes are numbered from set NO. 4001. The lot includes the following volumes: 1. Volume 1 - Franklin, Woolman, Penn (1909)2. Volume 2 - Plato, Epictetus, Marcus, Aurelius (1909)3. Volume 3 - Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne (1909)4. Volume 13 - Aeneid Virgil (1909)5. Volume 14 - Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes (1909)6. Volume 16 - The Thousand and One Nights (1910)7. Volume 18 - Modern English Drama (1909)8. Volume 19 - Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe (1910)9. Volume 20 - The Divine Dante (1909)10. Volume 21 - I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni (1909)11. Volume 28 - Essays. English and American (1910)12. Volume 30 - Scientific Papers Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie (1910)13. Volume 37 - Locke, Berkeley, Hume (1910)14. Volume 45 - Sacred Writings 2 (1910)15. Volume 46 - Elizabethan Drama 1 (1910)16. Lectures on the Harvard Classics (1914) Vintage books are in good condition. The hardcovers have fading, scuffs and soiling due to age/storage. Books and Bindings are fragile due to age. See photos.

Price: 70 USD

Location: Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-10-10T21:28:25.000Z

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Binding: Hardcover

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Title: The Harvard Classics / Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf

Publisher: P F Collier & Son Company

Subject: World Literature

Year Printed: 1909

Original/Facsimile: Original

Year: 1909-1914

Language: English

Special Attributes: Limited Edition, Vintage, Gilt Edges (Top of Pages), Deckle Edges (three sides of pages), Stamped Binding, Tissue Paper (over illustration), Alumni Edition

Author: William Allen Neilson, PH. D.

Personalized: No

Topic: Classics

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Editor: Charles W. Eliot