Harvard Classics
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The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and
Volumes 1-10 of The Harvard Classics (Southwark edition)
Example advertisement for The Harvard Classics showing mail-in coupon, p.2, Collier's, November 19, 1910
Eliot's letter describing the selection process in a letter to the editor, p.7, Collier's, July 24, 1909
Testimony from Robert J. Collier and John F. Oltroggege, NY Supreme Court, Oct 21, 1910 (Appellate Division-First Department), in Collier V Jones, ps. 39, 45, 60
Everyman's Library
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Everyman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon. It began in 1906. It is currently published in hardback by Random House. It was originally an imprin
Harvard Classics
…Delphian Society created the 10 Volume Delphian Course of Reading—with the Harvard Classics editor Eliot in mind—for young and developing minds. The Everyman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon. The Thinker's Library is a selection of essays, literature, and extracts…
Endpapers of the original 1906 run of the Everyman's Library. The art signed "RLK" is heavily based on that of William Morris and his Kelmscott Press, whereas the quotation is derived from the medieval play Everyman
Lays of Marie de France and Others, translated by Eugene Mason, 1911