Essays English and American (Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition) by Charles W. (editor) .. Eliot

Essays English and American (Thackeray, Newman, Ruskin, Huxley, Thoreau and Others (The Harvard Classics) Thackeray; Newman; Ruskin; Huxley; Thoreau et al. Eliot, Charles W. (Editor); Published by P. F. Collier & Son, 1968. 61th edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 420 pages. Harvard Classics: Registered Edition as per half-title; Deluxe Edition as per spine. Green faux leather with gilt decorative borders and colophon front and gilt spine titles; gold endpapers. Contents In mint, unread condition; light bump head of spine and otherwise fine. This is Volume 28 of the Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot. Twelve nineteenth-century authors are anthologized in this volume including English prose artists Arnold and Ruskin and the American authors Thoreau and Lowell. Their subjects range from personal biographies on Milton, Swift and Lincoln to topical… Read More