Harvard Classics 1980 Grolier Edition fine binding in simulated leather gold page edges marble endpapers BUYERS CHOICE ONE from options

This listing is for ONE, buyers choice from options titles listed. The set is the 1980 Harvard Classics Edition, fine binding appointments, leatherette binding, all three page edges tipped in gold, attached satin book mark, hubbed spine. Every volume offered is in near fine (almost like new) condition. The inside pages on all are still crisp and clean. The bindings are tight and straight, AND this edition as bound is more durable than previous basic binding edition which have a tendency to crack. This edition features fine sewn binding and all bindings tight and straight. Bound in maroon leatherette the hardcover boards feature gold design and filigree front and back with gold lettering along spine. NOTE: some of the titles have minor fading of the gold lettering along spine but still the covers are near fine or almost like new in vintage book grading terms. Each volume is standard octavo book size or 6" x 9".

This set is the 1980 Harvard Classics published by Grolier Enterprises in fine binding. The P.F Collier Editions of The Harvard Classics were published in 1969-70 and were the 62nd printing of the series. The Harvard Classics were all edited by Charles W. Eliot in a 50 volume set originally published in 1909 and 1910. Charles W. Eliot was the President of Harvard at the time and spoke about the Harvard Classics in speeches, making references to a "3 foot shelf of books" that could afford any reader an education were he to read them all. He was pressed to expand on exactly what books would be included in that "3 foot shelf" and he concluded that one would actually need a 5 foot shelf. No titles were defined at that time, but Colliers implored Eliot to chose 50 books for a 5 foot shelf, they would publish if Eliot would define the books. So The Harvard Classics was born. At the time they were often referred to as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf of Books. Reprinted many times, the final print run from Collier was the 62nd printing.
Complete Titles in Options List:
The Divine Comedy of Dante Translator Henry F. Cary
Virgil's Aeneid
The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato The Golden Sayings of Epictetus The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Odyssey of Homer
Darwin The Origin of Species
Darwin Voyage of the Beagle
Nine Greek Dramas Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes
Essays and English Traits Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude William Penn
Folklore and Fable Aesop Grimm Andersen
The Complete Poems of John Milton
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli Utopia by Sir Thomas More Ninety-Five Theses Martin Luther
Goethe Faust Part 1 Egmont Hermann and Dorothea Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
Essays Civil Moral New Atlantis Francis Bacon Areopagitica Tractate on Education Milton Religio Medici Browne
Pilgrims Progress Bunyan Lives of John Donne & George Herbert by Izaak Walton
Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles Pericles Aristides Alcibiades Coriolanus Demosthenes Cicero Caesar Antony
American Historical Documents 1000-1904

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