• 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
  • 1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection - Pretty Old Books
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1952 Britannica Great Books of the Western World Set, 54 Volumes, Mid-Century Reference Collection

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A stunning, complete 54-volume set of Great Books of the Western World. The spines have rich, muted jewel-tone bands in burgundy, olive, slate blue, and deep teal green, set off by black title labels, gold lettering, and the gilt University of Chicago crest. The colors alternate along the shelf in a soft patchwork that looks wonderful filling a built-in bookcase, library wall, study, or home office.

Edited by Robert Maynard Hutchins with Mortimer J. Adler and published by Encyclopedia Britannica with the editorial advice of the faculties of the University of Chicago, this landmark set gathers the essential works of Western thought from Homer to Freud. It covers philosophy, history, science, mathematics, poetry, drama, and the novel. Few sets make a shelf look as impressive, and it's a lifetime of reading, too!

Together they measure approximately 9.5 x 60 inches.

This set includes:
🏛️ Vol. 1: The Great Conversation
🏛️ Vol. 2: The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon I (Angel to Love)
🏛️ Vol. 3: The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon II (Man to World)
🏛️ Vol. 4: Homer
🏛️ Vol. 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
🏛️ Vol. 6: Herodotus, Thucydides
🏛️ Vol. 7: Plato
🏛️ Vol. 8: Aristotle I
🏛️ Vol. 9: Aristotle II
🏛️ Vol. 10: Hippocrates, Galen
🏛️ Vol. 11: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus
🏛️ Vol. 12: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
🏛️ Vol. 13: Virgil
🏛️ Vol. 14: Plutarch
🏛️ Vol. 15: Tacitus
🏛️ Vol. 16: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
🏛️ Vol. 17: Plotinus
🏛️ Vol. 18: Augustine
🏛️ Vol. 19: Thomas Aquinas I
🏛️ Vol. 20: Thomas Aquinas II
🏛️ Vol. 21: Dante
🏛️ Vol. 22: Chaucer
🏛️ Vol. 23: Machiavelli, Hobbes
🏛️ Vol. 24: Rabelais
🏛️ Vol. 25: Montaigne
🏛️ Vol. 26: Shakespeare I
🏛️ Vol. 27: Shakespeare II
🏛️ Vol. 28: Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey
🏛️ Vol. 29: Cervantes
🏛️ Vol. 30: Francis Bacon
🏛️ Vol. 31: Descartes, Spinoza
🏛️ Vol. 32: Milton
🏛️ Vol. 33: Pascal
🏛️ Vol. 34: Newton, Huygens
🏛️ Vol. 35: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
🏛️ Vol. 36: Swift, Sterne
🏛️ Vol. 37: Fielding
🏛️ Vol. 38: Montesquieu, Rousseau
🏛️ Vol. 39: Adam Smith
🏛️ Vol. 40: Gibbon I
🏛️ Vol. 41: Gibbon II
🏛️ Vol. 42: Kant
🏛️ Vol. 43: American State Papers, The Federalist, J.S. Mill
🏛️ Vol. 44: Boswell
🏛️ Vol. 45: Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday
🏛️ Vol. 46: Hegel
🏛️ Vol. 47: Goethe
🏛️ Vol. 48: Melville
🏛️ Vol. 49: Darwin
🏛️ Vol. 50: Marx, Engels
🏛️ Vol. 51: Tolstoy
🏛️ Vol. 52: Dostoevsky
🏛️ Vol. 53: William James
🏛️ Vol. 54: Freud

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