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Beautiful 1st edition set of Harvard Classics.
Printing date from 1909.
50 vol.set and the lecture book.
Very good condition.
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The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot s Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by president that was first published in 1909.
Eliot, then President of , had stated in speeches that the elements of a could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.)
The publisher saw an opportunity, and challenged him to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works; the Harvard Classics was the result. Eliot worked for one year together with , a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400 to 450 pages or so; and the included texts are so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world s written legacies.
Collier s was a major publisher of sets in the early 1900s and throughout the century issued many multi-volume sets of authors as diverse as , , , and .
Currently, a hardcover set of the Harvard Classics (now in the ) is published by and a paperback version by .
NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON ...
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