Edited by Charles W. Eliot

Complete 51-volume set, including the Harvard Classics Lectures. Memorial Edition, 1929 printing. Published by P. F. Collier & Son, New York. Uniformly bound in original red fabrikoid (pyroxylin-coated cloth) with gilt titles and Harvard crest to boards and spines.

Note that Volume 38 is missing from the matched set; We have added a volume from 1959 for volume 8 (red bonded leather),

A later and durable issue of Eliot’s renowned “Five-Foot Shelf of Books,” intended as a comprehensive program of self-education across literature, history, philosophy, and science. The Memorial Edition fabrikoid bindings were designed for longevity and retain an attractive, leather-like appearance while offering greater resistance to wear than standard cloth editions.

Condition: Very good. Clean, well-kept set with typical shelf wear. Bindings sound with hinges intact throughout. Gilt titles remain clear and readable. Text blocks are clean and free from foxing or significant discoloration. No bookplates, inscriptions, or markings. A solid and attractive working set with strong shelf presence.

Harvard Classics Title List (51 Volumes)

1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Journal of John Woolman / Fruits of Solitude

2. Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius

3. Essays by Bacon, Milton, and others

4. Complete Poems in English by John Milton

5. Essays and English Traits by Emerson

6. Poems and Songs by Burns

7. Confessions of St. Augustine / Imitation of Christ

8. Nine Greek Dramas

9. Cicero and Pliny

10. Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)

11. Origin of Species (Darwin)

12. Plutarch’s Lives

13. Aeneid (Virgil)

14. Don Quixote (Cervantes)

15. Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)

16. Thousand and One Nights

17. Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

18. Modern English Drama

19. Faust (Goethe), Marlowe, etc.

20. Divine Comedy (Dante)

21. I Promessi Sposi (Manzoni)

22. The Odyssey (Homer)

23. Two Years Before the Mast (Dana)

24. On the Sublime, French Revolution, etc.

25. J.S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle

26. Continental Drama

27. English Essays

28. Essays in Science and Philosophy

29. Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin)

30. Scientific Papers

31. Autobiography / Letters by Faraday, Helmholtz, etc.

32. Literary and Philosophical Essays

33. Voyages and Travels

34. French and German Philosophers

35. Chronicle and Romance

36. Machiavelli, More, Luther

37. Locke, Berkeley, Hume

38. Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

39. Famous Prefaces / Criticism

40. English Poetry (Chaucer to Gray)

41. English Poetry (Collins to Fitzgerald)

42. English Poetry (Tennyson to Whitman)

43. American Historical Documents

44. Sacred Writings I

45. Sacred Writings II

46. Elizabethan Drama I

47. Elizabethan Drama II

48. Thought and Action

49. Epic and Saga

50. Introduction, Reader’s Guide, Indexes

Lectures