Don Quixote of the Mancha The First Part of the Delightful History of Most Ingenious Knight by Cervantes 1980 Grolier The Harvard Classics

This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover. 1980 Grolier The Harvard Classics. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Bound w fine binding in faux leather cover, the hardcover boards are also near fine with only a hint of shelf wear and feature gold design front and gold lettering along spine. All 3 pages edges tipped in gold gilt. Attached satin bookmark. Fine sewn, not glued, binding for durability and aesthetics. Octavo book size or 6" x 9" with 519 pages and marbled endpapers front and back.

The P.F Collier Editions of The Harvard Classics were first published in 1909 and offered in three different bindings. Grolier Enterprises published this edition in 1980. 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 in the late 1960's.

This is Don Quixote of the Mancha The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight by Cervantes, 1980 Grolier The Harvard Classics. The edition has been translated by Thomas Shelton with the original Intro and Notes by Charles Eliot. The edition contains Four Books, being the whole of the first part of the novel. The second part, was issued later in 1615 is of the nature of a sequel, not included in this edition.

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