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Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago

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General t.p. in vol. 1 only: each vol. has special t.p

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"Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the editor." L.C. copy neither numbered nor signed

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"19th printed, 1971"

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Includes bibliographies

English Book

Title Proper

Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago

First Statement of Responsibility

[Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief]&

Edition Statement

Founders' ed., Collectors library ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[Chicago

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

William Benton

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1952, 1971]&

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

54 v.: ill.

Text of Note

1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins. -- 2-3. The great ideas. -- 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey. -- 5. Aeschylus. Sophpcles. Euripides. Aristophanes. -- 6. Herodotus. Thucydides. -- 7. Plato. -- 8-9. Aristotle. -- 10. Hippocrates. Galen. -- 11. Euclid. Archimedes. Apollonius. Nicomachus. -- 12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius. -- 13. Virgil. -- 14. Plutarch. -- 15. Tacitus. -- 16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler. -- 17. Plotinus. -- 18. Augustine. -- 19-20. Thomas Aquinas. -- 21. Dante. -- 22. Chaucer. -- 23. Machiavelli. Hobbes. -- 24. Rabelais. -- 25. Montaigne. -- 26-27. Shakespeare. -- 28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey. -- 29. Cervantes. -- 30. Francis Bacon. -- 31. Descartes. Spinoza. -- 32. Milton. -- 33. Pascal. -- 34. Newton. Huygens. -- 35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume. -- 36. Swift. Sterne. -- 37. Fielding. -- 38. Montesquieu. Rousseau. -- 39. Adam Smith. -- 40-41. Gibbon. -- 42. Kant. -- 43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill. -- 44. Boswell. -- 45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday. -- 46. Hegel. -- 47. Goethe. -- 48. Melvilie. -- 49. Darwin. -- 50. Marx. Engels. -- 51. Tolstoy. -- 52. Dostoevsky. -- 53. William James. -- 54. Freud

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Literature -- Collections

Entry Element

Literature -- Indexes