Rainbow Edition Complete 52 Volumes Including Lectures and Fifteen Minutes a Day Reading Guide

Complete in 52 volumes: the full Harvard Classics series (Vols. 1–50) together with the important Lectures volume and the “Fifteen Minutes a Day” Reading Guide. This is the attractive Gemstone / Rainbow Edition with bindings in five different fabrikoid colors. Dupont Fabrikoid (faux leather) has superior UV resistance; the spines have minimal fade. 

All volumes are in Good condition: bindings clean and bright with minimal rubbing, interiors tight and unmarked, gilt spine lettering legible throughout. A handsome and complete mid-century set, offering both scholarly utility and strong shelf appeal. Note that this set is from two different printings... some have "Collier" at the bottom of the spine. Note that volume #50 is a slightly different color. 

Titles:

Vol. 1: Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn

Vol. 2. Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius

Vol. 3. Bacon, Milton's Prose, Thomas Browne

Vol. 4. Complete Poems in English, Milton

Vol. 5. Essays and English Traits, Emerson

Vol. 6. Poems and Songs, Burns

Vol. 7. The Confessions of St. Augustine, The Imitation of Christ

Vol. 8. Nine Greek Dramas

Vol. 9. Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

Vol. 10. Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

Vol. 11. Origin of Species, Darwin

Vol. 12. Plutarch's Lives

Vol. 13. Aeneid, Virgil

Vol. 14. Don Quixote, Part 1, Cervantes

Vol. 15. Bunyan & Walton

Vol. 16. The Thousand and One Nights

Vol. 17. Folk-Lore and Fable, Aesop, Grimm, Andersen

Vol. 18. Modern English Drama

Vol. 19. Faust, Egmont, etc., Goethe, Doctor Faustus, Marlowe

Vol. 20. The Divine Comedy, Dante

Vol. 21. I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni

Vol. 22. The Odyssey, Homer

Vol. 23. Two Years Before the Mast, Dana

Vol. 24. On the Sublime, French Revolution, etc., Burke

Vol. 25. J.S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle

Vol. 26. Continental Drama

Vol. 27. English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay

Vol. 28. Essays, English and American

Vol. 29. Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin

Vol. 30. Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc.

Vol. 31. Autobiography, Cellini

Vol. 32. Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, etc.

Vol. 33. Voyages and Travels

Vol. 34. Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes

Vol. 35. Froissart, Malory, Holinshead

Vol. 36. Machiavelli, More, Luther

Vol. 37. Locke, Berkeley, Hume

Vol. 38. Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

Vol. 39. Famous Prefaces

Vol. 40. English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray

Vol. 41. English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

Vol. 42. English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman

Vol. 43. American Historical Documents

Vol. 44. Sacred Writings: Volume 1

Vol. 45. Sacred Writings: Volume 2

Vol. 46. Elizabethan Drama 1

Vol. 47. Elizabethan Drama 2

Vol. 48. Thoughts and Minor Works, Pascal

Vol. 49. Epic and Saga

Vol. 50. Introduction, Reader's Guide, Indexes

Lectures

Fifteen Minute Reading Guide