Name/Title
FAMOUS PREFACES--HARVARD CLASSICS, VOL. 39Entry/Object ID
97.36.1.39Description
"Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books", Harvard Classics, Volume 39 (New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1910), 462 pp. The thirty-ninth of a 51-volume series on world literature classics, featuring such writers as Calvin, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Goethe, Wordsworth, Hugo, and Whitman. A hardcover book in burgundy cloth with the Harvard University logo on the front cover and the series and its logo, volume number, title, and publisher in gilt letters on the spine. There is a frontispiece illustration of Hippolyte Adolph Taine, one of the writers in the work. The second edition of a work first published in 1909. From the estate of Rose Palomares, purchased from Claremont Books and Prints. In good condition with minor abrasions at the cover corners, creases along the inner cover binding lines, and light discoloration on the pages. NoneLexicon
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Documentary Artifact, Books, P. F. Collier and Son [Publishers], Literature, Modern, Anthologies