Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books (The Harvard Classics Volume #39)

Brown cloth boards with gold lettering. Glossy frontispiece tipped in. A little edgewear, light foxing along edge. "The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." William Allan Nielson states: " The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may claim to constitute a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.