The hundred greatest men
Subtitle: portraits of the one hundred greatest men of history reproduced from fine and rare steel engravings
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Published: 1879
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography; Portraits
Other titles: Portrait collection of the hundred greatest men
Notes: Cover title: Portrait collection of the hundred greatest men.

General introduction to the work by Ralph Waldo Emerson; each volume has separate introduction by various authors.

Each portrait is accompanied by a biographical sketch, separately paged. Each volume has an appendix containing "Sources of the portraits."
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Poetry (Poets, dramatists, novelists: Homer, Pindar Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Lucretius, Virgil, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Molir̈e, Goethe, Scott); title: v. 2. Art (Architects and sculptors, painters, musicians: Phidias, Praxiteles, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven); title: v. 3. Religion (Religious founders, theologians, reformers: Moses, Zoroaster, Confucius, Buddha, Mahomet, St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, St. Francis, Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Loyola, Bossuet, Wesley); title: v. 4. Philosophy (Mathematicians, psychologists, moralists: Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, John Locke, Leibnitz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant); title: v. 5. History (Historians, orators, critics: Herodotus, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Cicero, Tacitus, Plutarch, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Lessing, Gibbon); title: v. 6. Science (Mathematicians, physicians, naturalists: Hippocrates, Archimedes, Galen, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Harvey, Newton, Linnaeus, Lavoisier, Bichat, Cuvier); title: v. 7. Politics (Warriors and statesmen: Pericles, Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Charles V, William the Silent, Richelieu, Cromwell, Peter the Great, Frederick II, Washington, Nelson, Napoleon); title: v. 8. Industry (Inventors, discoverers, philanthropists: Guttenberg, Columbus, Palissy, Franklin, Montgolfier, Howard, Arkwright, Watt, Stephenson)