Harvard Classics Registered Edition

This listing features a curated selection from The Harvard Classics Registered Edition, published between 1937 and 1938 and edited by Charles W. Eliot. Often described as a five-foot shelf of books, The Harvard Classics were created to provide readers with a foundational literary education through enduring works of philosophy, history, essays, poetry, and classic literature.

This partial set includes eighteen volumes from the main series, with all books sold individually under this single listing. The three English Poetry volumes are sold together as a complete three-volume set. All volumes are original vintage editions with uniform bindings and well-preserved pages. Conditions range from good to like new, with specific conditions noted per volume at purchase.

Included volumes span authors and works such as Benjamin Franklin, Plato, Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Darwin, John Bunyan, Francis Bacon, and classic collections of English and American essays, drama, and historical documents. These books are ideal for readers, collectors, educators, and anyone drawn to timeless writing and thoughtful presentation.

Volume 1 – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Volume 2 – The Apology Phaedo and Crito of Plato
Volume 3a – Essays Civil and Moral
Volume 3b – English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay
Volume 15 – The Pilgrim’s Progress
Volume 16 – Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
Volume 21 – The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Volume 23 – Two Years Before the Mast
Volume 24 – Edmund Burke
Volume 28 – Essays English and American
Volume 29 – The Voyage of the Beagle
Volume 33 – Don Quixote
Volume 39 – Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Volumes 40-42 - English Poetry in Three Volumes
Volume 43 – American Historical Documents
Volume 47 – Elizabethan Drama