Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago
)Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief
Founders' ed
Chicago
oW. Benton
)1952(
54 v. illus., maps. 25 cm
General t.p. in vol. 1 only: each vol. has special t.p
"Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the editor." L.C. copy neither numbered nor signed
Includes bibliographies
1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.--2-3. The great ideas.--4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.--5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.--6. Herodotus. Thucydides.--7. Plato.--8-9. Ari