Great books of the Western World.
Subtitle: Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with  the University of Chicago.
By: [Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief.
Contributors: Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899- ed.; Encyclopaedia Britannica.; University of Chicago.
Edition: Founders' ed.
Publisher: W. Benton
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.; Literature -- Indexes.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
General t.p. in vol. 1 only: each vol. has special t.p.
"Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the editor." L.C. copy neither numbered nor signed.
Table of contents: title: 1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.; title: 2-3. The great ideas.; title: 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.; title: 5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.; title: 6. Herodotus. Thucydides.; title: 7. Plato.; title: 8-9. Aristotle.; title: 10. Hippocrates. Galen.; title: 11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.; title: 12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.; title: 13. Virgil.; title: 14. Plutarch.; title: 15. Tacitus.; title: 16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.; title: 17. Plotinus.; title: 18. Augustine.; title: 19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.; title: 21. Dante.; title: 22. Chaucer.; title: 23. Machiavelli. Hobbes.; title: 24. Rabelais.; title: 25. Montaigne.; title: 26-27. Shakespeare.; title: 28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.; title: 29. Cervantes.; title: 30. Francis Bacon.; title: 31. Descartes. Spinoza.; title: 32. John Milton.; title: 33. Pascal.; title: 34. Newton. Huygens.; title: 35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.; title: 36. Swift. Sterne.; title: 37. Henry Fielding.; title: 38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.; title: 39. Adam Smith.; title: 40-41. Gibbon.; title: 42. Kant.; title: 43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill.; title: 44. Boswell.; title: 45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday.; title: 46. Hegel.; title: 47. Goethe.; title: 48. Melville.; title: 49. Darwin.; title: 50. Marx.; title: 51. Tolstoy.; title: 52. Dostoevsky.; title: 53. William James.; title: 54. Freud.