The Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition Lot of 19 Green Covers Hardcovers

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The Harvard Classics Collector's Edition Lot of 19 Green Covers Hardcovers This lot features 19 hardcover volumes from The Harvard Classics: Deluxe Edition, distinctive with their classic green covers and gilded spine detailing. Known as Dr. Eliot's "Five-Foot Shelf of Books," this comprehensive anthology gathers foundational works of Western civilization, philosophy, world literature, historical essays, and classic poetry. Titles & Authors Included in Set: Addison, Steele, Swift, Defoe, Johnson and Others Dante English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray English Poetry 3: Collins to Fitzgerald English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen Essays, English and American: Thackeray, Newman, Ruskin, Huxley, Thoreau and Others Edmund Burke Cervantes (Don Quixote) American Historical Documents Darwin: Voyage of the Beagle Franklin, Woolman, Penn Bacon, Milton, Browne Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius Elizabethan Drama 1: Marlowe, Shakespeare Homer Famous Prefaces Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan / The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton An impressive shelf ensemble for students, scholars, collectors of fine library editions, or anyone building a classic home library. Condition: The books are in overall good condition. All bindings remain tight, square, and sound across the lot. The interior pages are clean, complete, and fully readable. The green covers show light edge scuffs and minor shelf wear. A few volu

• Publisher: Grolier
• Year: 1980
• Condition: Good

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