World's Greatest Literature Set 60 of 62 Volumes

New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. Family run bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. 60 volumes of the 1901 World's Greatest Literature set, published by P. F. Collier under the Colonial Press imprint. Set in Acceptable Condition. Several volumes are in acceptable condition due to weak front hinges, especially at the point where the frontispieces were inserted. Covered in dark blue cloth, except for olive green index volume. Gilt lettering often faded and illegible on spines. Condition of each volume is listed below. Missing volume 13, works of Walter Bagehot, and volume 36, the third volume of Hippolyte Taine's History of English Literature. The set is unusual in that it is of very high intellectual value, with multiple volumes of folk tales from all over the world, orations, philosophy, and serious intellectual histories. Priced at ten dollars per volume. .......................#1 George Rawlinson’s Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Condition: Good. Some weakness and poor glueing at frontispiece. History of Asiatic and African Nations. History of Persia. History of Greece. History of Macedonia. History of Rome and Parthia................. #2-4 Henry Hallam’s History of Europe During The Middle Ages. This set contains nine books, in three separate volumes. Volume 1. Condition: Good. Frontispiece detaching. Hinge weak. Book I: The History of France. Book II: The Feudal System. Book III: History of Italy. Book IV: History of Spain. Volume 2. Condition: Very Good. Book V: History of Germany. Book VI: History of the Greeks and Saracens. Book VII: History of Ecclesiastical Power. Book VIII: The Constitutional History of England. Volume 3. Condition: Good. Frontispiece detaching. Hinge weak. Book IX: Society During the Middle Ages. Plus: Jules Michelet’s Modern History, which covers the period from 1455 to 1789. #5-7 A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green. In three volumes. Volume 1. Condition: Good: Frontispiece detaching. Hinge weak. The English Kingdoms, 607-1013. England under foreign kings, 1013-1204. The Great Charter, 1204-1265. The three Edwards, 1265-1360. The Hundred Years’ War, 1336-1431. The New Monarchy, 1422-1540. Volume 2. Condition: Very Good. The Reformation. Puritan England. The Revolution. Volume 3. Condition: Good. Frontispiece detaching. Hinge weak. Modern England. Plus: History of Civilization in Europe, by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot. (Tr. William Hazlitt) #8-9 The French Revolution, by Thomas Carlyle. In two volumes. #10 Edward Shepherd Creasy’s Decisive Battles of the World. Condition: Acceptable. Front hinge detaching. From the Battle of Marathon to the Battle of Waterloo, supplemented by critical narratives of the Battles of Gettysburg, Sedan, Santiago, and Manila. #11-12 Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws, in two volumes. Volume 1: Condition: Good. Poor glueing at frontispiece. Weak hinge. Volume 2: Condition: Good. Poor glueing at frontispiece. Weak hinge. #13 Bagehot. MISSING #14-15 John Stuart Mill. Principles of Political Economy, with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy. In two volumes. Volume 1: Condition: Good. Poor glueing at frontispiece, some weakness at hinge. Volume 2: Condition: Very Good. #16-17 Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America. In two volumes. Volume 1: Condition: Good. Some damage at top of spine from being pulled out of a bookshelf. Volume 2: Condition: Good-. Some breaking at hinge. PHILOSOPHY (4 volumes) #18. Dialogues of Plato and the Politics of Aristotle (trans. Jowett). Condition: Acceptable. Hinge detaching. #19. Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum. Condition: Good. Poor glueing at frontispiece. #20. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason. Condition: Acceptable. Detaching at hinge. #21. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History. Condition: Good. Weakness and poor glueing at frontispiece. ORATIONS (6 volumes) #22 The Orations of Demosthenes. Condition: Very Good. #23 The Orations of Cicero. Condition: Very Good. #24-5 Orations of British Orators. In two volumes. Volume 1: Condition: Very Good. Volume 2: Good. Some weakening at hinge. #26-7 Orations of American Orators. In two volumes. Volume 1: Condition: Good. Some light signs of damp staining. Weakening at hinge. Volume 2: Condition: Very Good. ESSAYS (4 volumes) #28 Essays of French, German, and Italian Essayists. Condition: Good. Poor glueing at frontispiece. #29-30. Essays of British Essayists. Volume 1: Condition: Very Good. Volume 2: Condition: Very Good. #31. Essays of American Essayists. Condition: Good. Frontispiece detaching. DRAMA (2 volumes) #32-33. Dramatic Masterpieces by Greek, Spanish, French, German, and English Dramatists. Volume 1. Condition: Very Good. Aeschylus- Prometheus Bound (trans. Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Sophocles – Oedipus Rex. Euripides – Medea. Aristophanes – The Knights. Pedro Calderon – Life a Dream. Jean-Baptiste Moliere – The Misanthrope. Jean-Baptiste Racine – Phaedra. Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer. Volume 2. Condition: Very Good. Johann Goethe – Faust. Richard Sheridan – The Rivals. Friedrich Schiller – Mary Stuart. Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House. Victorien Sardou – Les Pattes de Mouche. #34-36. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine. In three volumes. Volume 1: Condition: Very Good. Volume 2: Condition: Very Good. MISSING VOLUME 3. WORLD LITERATURE #37-38 Persian Literature and Japanese Literature (2 volumes). Volume 1: Condition: Good. Speckling on cover. Frontispiece weak. Volume 2: Condition: Very Good. Speckling on cover. #39 Hindu Literature. Condition: Acceptable. Tearing coming from poor glueing of frontispiece. Heavy speckling. #40 Chinese Literature and Arabian Literature. Condition: Good. Weakness at frontispiece. #41 Sacred Books of the East. Condition: Very Good. The Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, The Koran, and the Life of Buddha. #42 Moorish and Malayan Literature. Condition: Good. Heavy speckling to cover. #43 Egyptian Literature. Condition: Very Good. #44 Turkish Literature. Condition: Very Good. #45 Hebrew Literature. Condition: Acceptable. Tearing of cloth at lower spine. Otherwise good. #46 Babylonian, Assyrian, and Armenian Literature. Condition: Good. Speckling. Poor glueing of frontispiece. Damp damage to cover. #47-48 Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries by Sir John Froissart. Volume 1: Condition: Good. Poor glueing of frontispiece. Volume 2: Condition: Acceptable. Hinge breaking. Poor glueing of frontispiece. Contains also Voltaire’s History of Charles XII. CLASSIC MEMOIRS #49 Memoirs of the French Court. Condition: Good. Very light warping and damp stains on page-ends. #50 English and American Memoirs. Condition: Very Good. #51 Royal Memoirs. Condition: Good. Poor glueing at frontispiece. Contains also Goethe’s Annals. GREAT BOOKS #52 The Divine Comedy. Translated by Henry Cary. Condition: Very Good. #53 Jerusalem Delivered, by Torquato Tasso. Condition: Very Good. Some evidence of damp on cover. #54 The Niebelungenlied. Condition: Very Good. #55-57 Leopold von Ranke’s History of the Popes, in three volumes. Volume 1: Condition: Very Good. Volume 2: Condition: Very Good. Speckling. Volume 3: Condition: Good. Poor glueing at frontispiece. #58 History of Florence, by Niccolo Machiavelli. Condition: Very Good. #59 The Republic of Plato (trans. Jowett). Condition: Acceptable: Hinge broken at bottom. #60 The Federalist Papers. Condition: Very Good. #61 Ideal Commonwealths: More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New Atlantis, Campanella’s City of the Sun and Harrington’s Oceana. Condition: Acceptable. Hinge breaking, poor glueing of frontispiece. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.