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The Harvard Classics – Complete 23-Volume Deluxe Edition (1969)
Offered for sale is acomplete 23-volume set of The Harvard Classics, 1969 Deluxe Registered Edition, published by P. F. Collier & Son.
This handsome vintage collection features dark green leatherette-style hardcover bindings, elegant gold lettering and decorative bands, and the traditional Harvard Veritas shield on each spine.
Edited under the direction of Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot,The Harvard Classicsbrings together some of the most influential works of world literature, history, philosophy, science, and poetry.
Condition: Good to Very Good
All 23 volumes are present. The books are in good overall condition, with clean interior pages.
The covers and spines show some age-related shelf wear, including scuffing to corners, rubbing, and wear along the bottom edges of some volumes, as illustrated in the photographs.
The gold lettering remains attractive and legible, and the matching green bindings make this an especially handsome collection for display on a bookshelf.
Complete List of All 23 Volumes
Addison, Steele, Swift, Defoe, Johnson– English Essays
Aesop, Grimm, Andersen– Folk-Lore and Fable
American Historical Documents
Bacon, Milton, Browne– Essays and Prose
Bunyan, Izaak Walton–The Pilgrim\'s Progressand Other Writings
Cervantes–Don Quixote
Chaucer to Gray– English Poetry
Collins to Fitzgerald– English Poetry
Dana–Two Years Before the Mast
Dante–The Divine Comedy
Darwin–The Voyage of the Beagle
Edmund Burke– Selected Writings
Emerson– Essays and English Traits
Famous Prefaces– Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Franklin, Woolman, Penn– Autobiographical and Historical Writings
Homer–The Odyssey
Marlowe, Shakespeare– Elizabethan Drama
Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius– Classical Newman, Ruskin, Huxley, Thoreau, and Others– Essays, English and American
The Thousand and One Nights
Tennyson to Whitman– English and American Poetry
Virgil–The Aeneid
Additional Details
Publication Year:1969
Publisher:P. F. Collier & Son, New York
Edition:Deluxe Registered Edition
Binding:Dark green leatherette-style hardcover with gilt lettering
Number of 23 volumes included
Condition:Good to Very Good, with exterior shelf wear and clean interior pages
This is an attractive matching vintage set, ideal for lovers of classic literature, history, philosophy, and the great books of Western civilization. It would make a wonderful addition to a personal library, home office, or study.
Please examine all photographs carefully, particularly those showing the normal wear to the corners and spine ends.
The books will be carefully packed to protect them during shipment.
Sold only as a complete 23-volume collection.
