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By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80698
A selection of essays by a variety of noted English authors, ranging from Ben Jonson to Samuel Johnson to Thomas De Quincey and several others. The 27th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies introductions and notes. With sepia frontis image of Samuel Johnson at the house of Lord Chesterfield. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $339.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1909-1910
Stock No.: 82127
A fifty-one volume, complete run of the Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics". The series was edited by Charles William Eliot, who often supplied introductions and notes to the various volumes. Includes the original 50 numbered volumes in matching bindings, plus an additional 51st which is a little mis-matched, from a later 1914 series and entitled "Lectures". Dr. Eliot believed the Harvard Classics would supply a reader with a liberal ... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 81116
A wide-ranging collection of key American documents. Ranging from an account of a possible voyage to North America by Leif Ericsson (c.1000) through Revolutionary War and Independence writings, to a treaty between the U.S. and Panama in 1904, allowing for the building of the Panama Canal. --- The 43rd entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductions and notes. With sepia painting depi... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.50
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1909
Stock No.: 80687
A selection of 6 dramas by 6 leading English playwright/poets whose works first appeared from the 17th Century through the early 19th Century. --- Included are: All for Love, or, the World Well Lost by John Dryden; The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith; The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelley; A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Robert Browning; and Manfred by Lord Byron. The 18th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, &#... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1909
Stock No.: 80688
A selection of 9 Greek dramas, with translations by E. D. A. Morshead, E. H. Plumptre, Gilbert Murray and B. B. Rogers in a 1909 edition. The 8th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies an introductions and notes. With sepia frontis illustration of an ancient Greek theatre. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decoration... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80690
A selection of writings by English philosophers John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume. The 37th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies an introduction and notes. With sepia frontis image of Berkeley. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations and grey-green topstain. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A Fair only copy ... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80692
A selection of essays by a variety of noted English and American authors, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to William Makepeace Thackeray. The 28th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies introductions and notes. With sepia frontis image of Thomas H. Huxley. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations and grey-green top... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80700
A selection of six plays by European authors and rendered into English by various translators. The 26th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductions and notes. With sepia frontis illustration of Molière in audience with Louis XIV. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations and grey-green topstain. Lac... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80705
A collection of prefaces and introductions to famous books by noted authors such as Caxton, Copernicus, Raleigh and many others. The 39th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductory notes. With sepia frontis portrait of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations and grey-green ... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 81118
A collection of famous tales from the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan era. Includes: Chronicles of Jean Froissart, The Holy Grail from the Book of King Arthur by Thomas Malory and The Raphael Holinshead Chronicles, which attempt to tell the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland. --- The 35th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductions and notes. With sepia painting of the Bat... View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 81110
A selection of French, German and Italian essays, including writings of Michel de Montaigne, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Cotthold Ephraim Lessing, J. C. Friedrich von Schiller, Immanuel Kant and Guiseppe Mazzine. The essays have been rendered into English from their original languages. --- The 32nd entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductions and notes. With sepia... View more info
Price: $13.50
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80695
A selection of explanations of various scientific phenomena by leading experts in their fields. Many of the writings are accompanied by black & white drawings. The 30th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies introductions and notes. With sepia frontis portrait of Michael Faraday. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & dec... View more info
By: FRANKLIN, Benjamin; WOOLMAN, John; PENN, William; ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1909
Stock No.: 80694
A selection of memoirs by notable American writers, led by the famous Autobiography of Franklin. Also included are the recollections of the Quaker anti-slavery adherent John Woolman and the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. The first entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies an introduction and notes. With sepia frontis illustration of a London printing press used by Franklin. --- In dark r... View more info
