Britannica Great Books of the Western World
54 volumes (complete set); (c) 1952; Nineteenth printing 1971;
ISBN 10: 0-85229-163-9
54 volumes all in good condition with majority bright spines and boards with general light shelf and handling wear including lightly rubbed and/or scuffed spine edges, corners, and boards, and more pronounced fading on a couple of volumes, Text blocks of majority are clean except for stains on a few of the volumes. Bindings are strong in all books. End papers are mostly clean except for very minor water staining on a few volumes that does not go into the text block, interior pages good with no ownership or other marks, no writing observed (each book reviewed). All books are nineteenth printing, 1972, except for approximately 3 books which were replaced for different but matching printings. Very nice set! See photos. Shipping only in the USA only due to weight.
The titles are: (1) The Great Conversation; (2) The Great Ideas I; (3) The Great Ideas II; (4) Homer; (5) Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes; (6) Herodotus, Thucydides; (7) Plato; (8) Aristotle I; (9) Aristotle II; (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) Thomas Aquinas I; (20) Thomas Aquinas II; (21) Dante; (22) Chaucer; (23) Machiavelli, Hobbes; (24) Rabelais; (25) Montaigne; (26) Shakespeare; (27) Shakespeare II; (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) Gibbon I; (41) Gibbon II; (42) Kant; (43) American State Papers, The Federalist, JS Mill; (44) Boswell; (45) Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday; (46) Hegel; (47) Goethe; (48) Melville; (49) Darwin; (50) Marx, Engels; (51) Tolstoy; (52) Dostoevsky; (53) William James; (54) Freud.