

Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books, Celebrated Historical Bindings, S/43
Such an exciting and rare set!! This is a beautiful and extremely rare 43-volume collection from the limited first edition Harvard Classics with the Celebrated Historic Bindings with gold page tops published in 1909/1910.
The books in this set are cloth bound in 10 different shades with decorations from famous bindings embossed onto the front covers with gold embellishments and raised bands on the spine. Also included are 6 original tuck-in sheets with descriptions of the bindings.
A small amount of age-related cover and spine wear to antique books over 100 years old as can be seen in the pictures.
The set measures 61" across, 5.25" front to back, and is 8" tall.
Included are:
1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn
2) Plato, Epictetus, Marcus, Aurelius
3) Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne
4) Complete Poems in English: Milton
5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson
6) Poems and Songs: Burns
7) Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ
9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
13) Aeneid Virgil
14) Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes
15)Pilgrim's Progress. Donne and Herbert. Bunyan, Walton
17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
18) Modern English Drama
19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe
21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni
23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana
24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke
25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle
26) Continental Drama
27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
28) Essays. English and American
29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin
30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb
31) Autobiography: Benvenuto, Cellini
32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan
33) Voyages and Travels
34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
35) Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed
36) Machiavelli, More, Luther
37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume
38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
39) Famous Prefaces
40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray
41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald
42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman
43) American Historical Documents
44) Sacred Writings 1
45) Sacred Writings 2
46) Elizabethan Drama 1
47) Elizabethan Drama 2
48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal
49) Epic and Saga
50) Introduction, Readers Guide, Indexes
No Number) Lectures
In 1909, the President of Harvard University, Dr. Eliot made claims that one could get a quality education by reading from three-feet-shelf of classics for 15 minutes a day, later changing it to five feet. Collier & Son challenged Dr. Eliot to create such a collection, the first collection of which was published in 1909. Thses are from the rare edition with the Celebrated Historical BIndings publishes as a luxury version.










