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86-517: The first 25 volumes were published in 1909 followed by the next 25 volumes in 1910. The collection was enhanced when the Lectures on The Harvard Classics was added in 1914 and Fifteen Minutes a Day - The Reading Guide in 1916. The Lectures on The Harvard Classics was edited by Willam A. Neilson , who had assisted Eliot in the selection and design of the works in Volumes 1–49. Neilson also wrote

172-550: A "Statement from the Editor" (Eliot) describing the origins of process resulting in the first sets of The Harvard Classics. The first editions printed by P.F. Collier & Son in three separate styles of bindings were first offered for sale on October 13, 1909. The collection was marketed so as to advertise in all the principal magazines published in the United States resulting in a combined circulation of almost 3,000,000 for

258-466: A "tremendous savings" to buyers and that these first printings include the word "Eliot" as a watermark on every page. To help the chronological obsession about the print runs of The Harvard Classics, clues regarding how many of first edition printings are offered in a trademark dispute case between P.F. Collier and E. Milton Jones in 1909 that was later ruled on in appeal in 1910 (in favor of P.F. Collier & Son). In testimony, Robert J. Collier states that

344-479: A $ 100,000 contract, agreeing to deliver 100 pictures (at $ 1000 each) during the next four years. From 1904 to 1910, Parrish was under exclusive contract to Collier's , which published his famed Arabian Nights paintings in 1906-07. When Norman Hapgood became editor of Collier's in 1903, he attracted many leading writers. In May 1906, he commissioned Jack London to cover the San Francisco earthquake ,

430-409: A circulation of 2,846,052 when Walter Davenport took over as editor in 1946, but the magazine began to lose readers during the post-World War II years. Collier's published a regular men's fashion feature contributed by Esquire co-founder Henry L. Jackson and also published long-awaited images from the 200-inch (5.08 m) Hale Telescope 's first light in 1949. In the early 1950s, Collier's ran

516-480: A descendant of Peter Collier, the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability was created in 2019. The annual US$ 25,000 prize is one of the largest American journalism prizes , and it was established to honor Peter Collier's legacy and contributions in the field of investigative reporting. Peter F. Collier (1849–1909) left Ireland for the U.S. at age 17. Although he went to a seminary to become

602-591: A financial opportunity and asked that Eliot make good on his statement by selecting 50 volumes (400 to 500 pages each). Collier representatives proposed the name for the series as either "The Harvard Library" or "The Harvard Classics" pending approval by Harvard University. The proposal, presented to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, was unanimously approved as a useful undertaking from an educational point of view. In February 1909 with his approaching retirement as President of Harvard University, Eliot accepted

688-440: A full partner in 1898. By 1904, the magazine was known as Collier's: The National Weekly . Peter Collier died in 1909. When Robert Collier died in 1918, he left a will that turned the magazine over to three of his friends, Samuel Dunn, Harry Payne Whitney and Francis Patrick Garvan . Robert J. Collier won a lawsuit against Postum Cereal Company and was awarded $ 50,000 in damages, but in 1912 an appeals court then handed down

774-400: A groundbreaking series of science-based articles speculating on space flight, Man Will Conquer Space Soon! , which prompted the general public to seriously consider the possibility of a trip to the moon, with the percentage of Americans who believed a crewed lunar trip could happen within 50 years changing from 15% to 38% by 1955. In 1951, an entire issue described the events and outcome of

860-591: A hypothetical war between the United States and the Soviet Union, entitled Preview of the War We Do Not Want . Collier's changed from a weekly to a biweekly in August 1953, but it continued to lose money. In 1954, John O'Hara became a columnist with his "Appointment with O'Hara" column. The magazine ceased publication with the issue for the week ending January 4, 1957. Princess Grace of Monaco

946-541: A larger size of books with the Home Library edition. This set of The Harvard Classics and subsequent editions are 15 percent larger than previous editions. None of these clues allow for an exact printing year, but each can be used to establish that the printing could not have occurred before a certain year, and of course, the printing cannot have occurred before the most recent copyright date. The last edition of The Harvard Classics printed by P.F. Collier & Son (then

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1032-421: A liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion. He was inundated with requests for the list of those book titles that would fill the three-foot shelf. After many attempts to support his initial claim, he decided that the shelf would need to be lengthened to five feet - but a definitive list of works was not declared. A well-known publisher, Peter Fenelon Collier and his son, Robert J. Collier , saw

1118-519: A limited quantity set called the Renaissance edition. This beautifully bound set includes 10 different bindings consisting of reproductions of the artistic bindings of Royal Monarchs of Europe from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Collier also began printing the National (1910) and Popular (1912) editions with lower price points in an effort, claimed by Collier in many advertisements, to honor

1204-491: A mainstay of the magazine during his 13-year association with it. Kate Osann's Tizzy cartoons first appeared in Collier's . The redheaded Tizzy was a teenage American girl who wore horn-rimmed glasses with triangular lenses. Tizzy was syndicated by NEA after Collier's folded. The cartoons were in color in Collier's but black-and-white in syndication and paperback reprints. After World War II , Harry Devlin became

1290-473: A majority decision that Postum deserved a new trial. The Postum Company believed that Collier's weekly used magazine coverage to attack their company's products in retaliation for not advertising in Collier's after Collier's wrote against a Grape-Nuts 's claim that it was an "A Food for Brain and Nerves." Postum then bought advertising pages in major newspapers in retaliation. The magazine was sold in 1919 to

1376-660: A new binding material for The Harvard Classic sets with the printing of a new set called the Southwark edition (in flexible dark green fabrikoid or imitation leather). The first set of the Southwark edition was printed in July 1919 and given to the Du Pont company. The set carries an inscription "This is the first set of Harvard Classics published by P.F. Collier & Son Company to be bound in DuPont Fabrikoid...". The set

1462-446: A pamphlet to prospective buyers. The pamphlet, entitled Fifteen Minutes a Day - A Reading Plan , is a 64-page booklet that describes the benefits of reading, gives the background on the book series, and includes many statements by Eliot about why he undertook the project. In the pamphlet, Eliot states: My aim was not to select the best fifty, or best hundred, books in the world, but to give, in twenty-three thousand pages or thereabouts,

1548-403: A picture of the progress of the human race within historical times, so far as that progress can be depicted in books. The purpose of The Harvard Classics is, therefore, one different from that of collections in which the editor's aim has been to select a number of best books; it is nothing less than the purpose to present so ample and characteristic a record of the stream of the world's thought that

1634-539: A priest, he instead started work as a salesman for P. J. Kenedy, publisher of books for the Roman Catholic market. When Collier wanted to boost sales by offering books on a subscription plan, it led to a disagreement with Kenedy, so Collier left to start his own subscription service. P. F. Collier & Son began in 1875, expanding into the largest subscription house in America with sales of 30 million books during

1720-456: A report accompanied by 16 pages of pictures. Under Hapgood's guidance, Collier's began publishing the work of investigative journalists such as Samuel Hopkins Adams , Ray Stannard Baker , C. P. Connolly and Ida Tarbell . Hapgood's approach had great impact, resulting in such changes as the reform of the child labor laws , slum clearance and women's suffrage . In April 1905, an article by Upton Sinclair , "Is Chicago Meat Clean?", persuaded

1806-515: A statement responding to the complaint, Crowell Collier stated that it no longer sells The Harvard Classics. On March 24, 1973, the FTC provisionally accepted a consent order from Crowell Collier (now called Crowell, Collier and MacMillan, Inc.) that the publisher would stop trying to sell The Harvard Classics in one bulk shipment. The publisher ended the subscription plan used since 1909 and stated that it had no plans to sell The Harvard Classics one book at

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1892-564: A subscription with only some of the volumes being sent initially and the remaining to follow in subsequent shipment. This was strategic since the complete 50 volumes had not yet been supplied by Eliot and Neilson to the publisher and would not be supplied until late in 1910. Volumes 1-49 of The Harvard Classics include reprints of hundreds of authors' works that may have been in the public domain (e.g., because of expired copyrights ) or covered by existing copyright holders such as other publishing companies. In either case, Collier filed copyrights for

1978-410: A subsidiary of Crowell Collier & Macmillan, Inc.) was the 63rd printing in 1970 of a 22-volume called the "Great Literature Edition" in green fibrated (essentially bonded) leather with 22K decor that sold for $ 3.78 per volume ($ 1 each for the first three volumes). The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint in 1972 against Crowell Collier for deceptive selling practices of The Harvard Classics. In

2064-527: A time. As Adam Kirsch , writing for Harvard magazine in 2001, notes, "It is surprisingly easy, even today, to find a complete set of the Harvard Classics in good condition. At least one is usually for sale on eBay, the Internet auction site, for $ 300 or so, a bargain at $ 6 a book. The supply, from attics or private libraries around the country, seems endless — a tribute to the success of

2150-413: Is a numbered set limited to 1,000 numbered copies. The green buckram has gilt lettering with crimson and gold Harvard insignia on both the spine and front board. The first editions show "Alumni Edition De Luxe" are numbered and limited to 1,000 sets and include embossed bands on the spine. The remaining first edition set of The Harvard Classics, printed in fine crimson buckram cloth, is another version called

2236-570: Is a rare numbered set bound in dark blue pebbled cloth. This set has gold gilt lettering with a profile of Eliot on the spine. The set was the focus of a set of materials for adult education with syllabi, instructions for study, and classroom discussions points. The set has an embossed symbol used in many of the education materials developed by the Eliot Foundation on the front board with Versitas Scientia Humanitas (trans. trust, knowledge, and culture). The number of printings of this rare set

2322-410: Is autographed by Eliot), (3) the "Alumni Edition De Luxe" (unsigned) limited to 1,000 numbered sets, and (4) the "Edition De Luxe" sets that are numbered and stated as being limited editions (but the number printed is not shown). The full morocco sets sold for at least $ 345. The Edition De Luxe sets in full morocco leather were sold many years (after the limited-quantity runs were sold out) as some include

2408-482: Is autographed) include signatures by Eliot and in some cases Robert J. Collier. The first print runs in 1909 were for volumes 1 to 25. Another print run was needed in 1910 for volumes 26 to 50 because those volumes were not selected and edited by Eliot until the middle of 1910. The first editions include Japanese vellum paper with "Eliot" watermarks (made by S.D. Warren & Co. of Boston), deckled pages, silk moire endpapers, sewn in bookmarks, and top edged gilt pages. Each

2494-467: Is different pagination than described in initial copyright filings) and because some editions were printed and sold with fewer than 50 volumes. In sum, copyright dates of The Harvard Classics editions offer misleading information about the printing date or printing year after the first editions were printed in 1909 and 1910. For example, print runs following the publications of the first editions and until 1937 include copyrights dates of 1909 or 1910 although

2580-408: Is not shown) over crimson boards. The "Library Editions" do not paper with "Eliot" watermarks, but appear to have the same high-quality Japanese vellum paper. Each of these limited-quantity three-quarter morocco sets sold for $ 195. The third type of binding of the first editions of The Harvard Classics were printed in fine buckram (green and crimson). The green buckram set of "Alumni Edition" printings

2666-493: Is unknown. Later editions (with names such as Gemstone, Deluxe Registered, Veritas, Home Library, and Great Literature editions) were not quite as unique as price points were further lowered to make the Harvard Classics more affordable. These later editions were printed in various sizes and binding materials such as cloth, fabrikoid, bonded leather, and even later in various types of imitation and genuine leather often printed to imitate earlier editions. P.F. Collier & Son printed

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2752-400: The print run , but these were not used in the U.S. until the middle of the twentieth century. Copyright dates for book reprints are unlikely to identify the year of printing excepts for first four editions. For The Harvard Classics series, copyright pages of The Harvard Classics have no information about the printing year (or run) until 1956 when the publisher began including information about

2838-423: The "Complete Official Contents Now Ready." With the help of more than 50 Harvard professors and instructors and the general library of Harvard University and its department libraries, Eliot and Neilson believed that the title "The Harvard Classics" was well deserved. In a June 1909 issue of Collier's Weekly , P.F. Collier & Son announced it would publish a series of books selected by Eliot, without disclosing

2924-404: The "Eliot Edition" - a limited quantity printing of 1,000. The crimson buckram "Eliot Edition" with Eliot's signature on the front board is printed with raised bands on the spine, "Eliot" watermarked pages, and include illustrations, frontispieces, plates, portraits, and facsimiles. This set does not include page markers. Both buckram first edition sets sold for $ 100. Another set almost identical to

3010-411: The "Lecture" volume added in 1914. The second binding type of the first editions of The Harvard Classics were printed in three-quarters morocco leather binding over cloth boards. The first edition three-quarters morocco leather sets have similar variations as the full morocco leather sets including a (1) set limited to 1,000 numbered and autographed "Cambridge Editions" signed by Eliot and, interestingly,

3096-475: The "verdict of the educated world" was not yet final. Works of modern fiction were felt to be readily accessible and thus excluded. English and American literature as well as documents related to American social and political ideas were more likely to be selected because the Harvard Classics were intended primarily for American readers. Eliot retired as President of Harvard University in May 1909 and devoted much of

3182-460: The 'Bracers'," that is, of those concoctions which are advertised and sold as medicines, but which in reality are practically cocktails. Since these articles on patent medicine frauds were announced in Collier's some time ago, most of the makers of alcoholic and opiated medicines have been running to cover, and even the Government has been awakened to a sense of responsibility. A few weeks ago

3268-424: The 1900–1910 decade. With the issue dated April 28, 1888, Collier's Once a Week was launched as a magazine of "fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news". It was sold with the biweekly Collier's Library of novels and popular books at bargain rates and as a stand-alone priced at seven cents. By 1892, with a circulation climbing past the 250,000 mark, Collier's Once a Week was one of the best selling magazines in

3354-399: The 20,000 first sets are unclear. Four different sets in full morocco leather were printed with raised bands, Harvard University insignia, and volume names in gilt lettering on the spines. The four variations in full leather include: (1) the "Alumni Autograph Edition" limited to 200 numbered sets (Volume 1 is autographed by Eliot), (2) the "Eliot Edition" limited to 1,000 numbered sets (Volume 1

3440-484: The 49 volumes and for The Harvard Classics complete series in 1909 and 1910 and obtained, when necessary, permission to reprint selected works included in one of the 49 volumes. Collier's copyrighted Volume 50 was in 1910, the Lectures on The Harvard Classics in 1914, and Fifteen Minutes a Day - The Reading Guide in 1916. P.F. Collier & Son asserts in many early adverstisements of The Harvard Classics that 20,000 sets of The Harvard Classics were first printed to offer

3526-432: The 50th edition (that is, different set) of The Harvard Classics in 1956. Owners and prospective buyers of The Harvard Classics editions are often interested in the printing year of a particular edition. As mentioned before, not even the first editions were fully printed in 1909. First editions were printed in 1909 and 1910, and all subsequent editions were printed in 1910 or later. A printer's key could be used to describe

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3612-536: The Commissioner of Internal Revenue issued an order to his Collectors, ordering them to exact a special tax from the manufacturer of every compound composed of distilled spirits, "even though drugs have been added thereto." The list of "tonics," "blood purifiers" and "cures" that will come under this head has not yet been published by the Treasury Department, but it is bound to include a good many of

3698-612: The Crowell Publishing Company, which in 1939 was renamed as Crowell-Collier Publishing Company . In 1924, Crowell moved the printing operations from New York City to Springfield , Ohio, but kept the editorial and business departments in New York City. Reasons given for moving print operations included conditions imposed by unions in the printing trade, expansion of the Gansevoort Market into

3784-476: The Senate to pass the 1906 Meat Inspection Act . Starting October 7, 1905, Adams startled readers with " The Great American Fraud ", an 11-part Collier's series. Analyzing the contents of popular patent medicines , Adams pointed out that the companies producing these medicines were making false claims about their products and some were health hazards. Hapgood launched the series with the following editorial: In

3870-456: The United States. The name was changed to Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal in 1895 or the longer title Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal of Art, Literature & Current Events . With an emphasis on news, the magazine became a leading exponent of the halftone news picture. To fully exploit the new technology, Collier recruited James H. Hare , one of the pioneers of photojournalism. Collier's only son, Robert J. Collier , became

3956-413: The beverages which, up to the present time, have been soothing the consciences while stimulating the palates of the temperance folk. The next official move will doubtless be against the opium-sellers; but these have likewise taken fright, and several of the most notorious "consumption cures" no longer include opium or hasheesh in their concoction. "The Great American Fraud" had a powerful impact and led to

4042-1080: The book Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham also appeared. Leading illustrators contributed to the covers of Collier's . They included C. C. Beall , W.T. Benda , Chesley Bonestell , Charles R. Chickering , Howard Chandler Christy , Arthur Crouch, Harrison Fisher , James Montgomery Flagg , Alan Foster, Charles Dana Gibson , Vernon Grant , Emil Hering, Earl Oliver Hurst, Alonzo Myron Kimball , Percy Leason, Frank X. Leyendecker , J. C. Leyendecker , Paul Martin , John Alan Maxwell , Ronald McLeod, John Cullen Murphy , Maxfield Parrish , Edward Penfield , Robert O. Reed, Frederic Remington , Anthony Saris, John Sloan , Jessie Willcox Smith , Frederic Dorr Steele , Emmett Watson , Jon Whitcomb and Lawson Wood. Other top illustrators contributed prolifically to their short stories. They included Harold Mathews Brett , Richard V. Culter , Robert Fawcett , Denver Gillen and Quentin Reynolds . In 1903, Gibson signed

4128-981: The circulation. Winston Churchill , who wrote an account of the First World War , was a regular contributor during the 1930s, but his series of articles ended in 1939 when he became a minister in the British government. Carl Fick was a Collier's staff writer prior to World War II. The magazine's roster of top cartoonists included Charles Addams , Carl Anderson , Stan and Jan Berenstain , Sam Berman , Sam Cobean , Jack Cole , A. B. Frost , Ralph Fuller , Dave Gerard , Vernon Grant , Jay Irving , Crockett Johnson , E. W. Kemble , Hank Ketcham , George Lichty , David Low , Bill Mauldin , Virgil Partch , Mischa Richter , William Steig , Charles Henry "Bill" Sykes , Richard Taylor, Gluyas Williams , Gahan Wilson and Rowland B. Wilson . Irving's association with Collier's began in 1932, and his "Collier's Cops" became

4214-508: The cloth or leather bindings of the early editions. Fabrikoid bindings were used in editions published from the 1920s to 1950's such as the varicolored Gemston edition which has five different colors of bindings and for larger editions with increased font sizes called the (home) Library editions that were marketed as being easier to read. The "Eliot Foundation of Adult Education" set, which appears to have been first printed around 1932 (based on included educational materials dated 1932 and later),

4300-566: The creation of The Collier Hour , broadcast 1927–32 on the NBC Blue Network . It was radio's first major dramatic anthology series, adapting stories and serials from Collier's . The hour-long program initially aired on the Wednesday before weekly publication, but switched to Sundays to avoid spoilers with stories that appeared simultaneously in the magazine. In 1929 the program began to incorporate music, news, sports and comedy with

4386-492: The dramatic content of the show. At the outbreak of World War II in 1941 with William L. Chenery as editor, Collier's readership reached 2.5 million. In the October 14, 1944, issue, the magazine published one of the first articles about concentration camps. It was Jan Karski 's "Polish Death Camp," a harrowing account of his visit to Belzec . The now problematic title is explored in "Polish death camp controversy" , under

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4472-462: The editors explaining the initial list and selection process in the July 24, 1909, edition of Collier's . Eliot describes his goal in helping publish The Harvard Classics as motivated by an educational purpose and he explains why the English Bible was not selected. In January 1910, P.F. Collier & Son announced in a "Publishers' Statement" that the 50 volumes were almost complete and offered

4558-495: The first Pure Food and Drug Act (1906). The entire series was reprinted by the American Medical Association in a book, The Great American Fraud , which sold 500,000 copies at 50 cents each. Hapgood had a huge influence on public opinion, and between 1909 and 1912, he succeeded in doubling the circulation of Collier's from a half million to a million. When he moved on to Harper's Weekly in 1912, he

4644-498: The first sets of The Harvard Classics printed and sold were "bound in full morocco...one set, bound in three-quarters morocco...and the remaining set, bound in buckram...". Advertisements in 1910 also state Collier prepared editions for those who demand luxurious limited editions as well as for the readers who want less expensive sets. The first editions of The Harvard Classics were known as "De Luxe" sets. Most were limited-quantity print runs and some "autographed" editions (only Volume 1

4730-573: The heading "Use and Reactions". Karski's book Story of a Secret State , which included the Collier's excerpt, was published later that year by Houghton Mifflin . It became a Book of the Month Club selection, and bestseller with 400,000 copies sold in 1944-45. The Collier's selection was reprinted in Robert H. Abzug's America Views the Holocaust: 1933-1945 (Palgrave, 1999). Collier's had

4816-2986: The highest quality, outside of The Harvard Classics as well as within them. Eliot and Neilson concluded that the 50 volumes were "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies" for English speaking readers. "The Harvard classics Volume 1" . Internet Archive . Retrieved 11 April 2019 . "The Harvard classics Volume 2" . Internet Archive . Retrieved 11 April 2019 . "The Harvard classics Volume 3" . Internet Archive . 19 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 4" . Internet Archive . 20 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 5" . Internet Archive . 20 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 6" . Internet Archive . 20 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 7" . Internet Archive . October 1909 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 8" . Internet Archive . 21 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 9" . Internet Archive . 4 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 10" . Internet Archive . 4 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 11" . Internet Archive . 4 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 12" . Internet Archive . 4 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 13" . Internet Archive . 6 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 14" . Internet Archive . 5 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 15" . Internet Archive . 5 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 16" . Internet Archive . 21 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 17" . Internet Archive . 5 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 18" . Internet Archive . 5 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 19" . Internet Archive . 6 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 20" . Internet Archive . 6 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 21" . Internet Archive . 13 October 2009 . Retrieved 25 August 2019 . "The Harvard classics Volume 22" . Internet Archive . 13 October 2009 . Retrieved 25 August 2019 . "The Harvard classics Volume 23" . Internet Archive . 6 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . "The Harvard classics Volume 24" . Internet Archive . 6 January 2006 . Retrieved 21 February 2018 . William Allan Neilson William Allan Neilson (28 March 1869 – 13 February 1946)

4902-421: The initial marketing effort. The sales were initiated using 3,000 agents who were supplied a prospectus or "Announcement of The Harvard Classics" so that leads could be followed up by the agents. Most advertisements encouraged an interest notice be mailed back to the publisher offering a targeted and highly successful marketing campaign for the series. The intent by the publisher was to offer The Harvard Classics as

4988-535: The introductions and notes for the selections in Volumes 1–49. The Harvard Classics is often described as a "51 volume" set, however, P.F. Collier & Son consistently marketed the Harvard Classics as 50 volumes plus Lectures and a Daily Reading Guide. Both The Harvard Classics and The Five-Foot Shelf of Books are registered trademarks of P.F. Collier & Son for a series of books used since 1909. Collier advertised The Harvard Classics in U.S. magazines including Collier's and McClure's , offering to send

5074-492: The issue dated the week ending January 4, 1957, although a brief, failed attempt was made to revive the Collier's name with a new magazine in 2012. As a result of Peter Collier's pioneering investigative journalism , Collier's established a reputation as a proponent of social reform. After lawsuits by several companies against Collier's ended in failure, other magazines joined in what Theodore Roosevelt described as " muckraking  journalism." Founded by Nathan S. Collier,

5160-401: The late 1920s, Collier's sometimes simultaneously ran two ten-part novels, and non-fiction was also serialized. Between 1913 and 1949, Sax Rohmer 's Fu Manchu serials, illustrated by Joseph Clement Coll and others, were hugely popular. The first three Fu Manchu novels by Rohmer were actually compilations of 29 short stories that Rohmer wrote for Collier's . The Mask of Fu Manchu , which

5246-487: The limited-quantity green buckram sets, is also in green buckram and has "Alumni Edition" on the spine. This set was sold for many years and was limited to 10,000 printings. These second print runs of this set are almost identical to the first editions except the pastedown papers have much more faint printings, the limited edition page shows the editions as "Edition De Luxe," and watermarked "Eliot" pages are not included. In 1910, Collier began printing The Harvard Classics in

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5332-403: The list of included works, that would be approximately five feet in length and would supply the readers a liberal education. A few days after the announced intent to publish Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, several newspapers published an incomplete list of selected works to be included. Eliot felt the publications were unauthorized and asked Collier's Weekly publishers to publish his letter to

5418-464: The millionth cartoon submitted to me since I became humor editor here. I wish it could have been fresh and original. Instead, it showed several ostriches with their heads buried in the sand. Two others stood nearby. Said one to the other: "Where is everybody?" Joseph Barbera , before he found fame in animation, had several cartoons published in Collier's in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The circulation battle with The Saturday Evening Post led to

5504-512: The next year to organizing the 50 volumes and selecting the list of included works. The first half of the included works was provided to P.F. Collier & Son in 1909. However, Eliot and Neilson did not make the remaining selections, write the introductions for each selection, or finish the general index until 1910. Consequently, P.F. Collier & Son printed volumes 1 to 25 in 1909 and volumes 26 to 50 in 1910. An advertisement for The Harvard Classics appeared in Collier's on April 30, 1909, stating

5590-466: The observant reader's mind shall be enriched, refined and fertilized. Within the limits of fifty volumes, containing about twenty-three thousand pages, my task was to provide the means of obtaining such knowledge of ancient and modern literature as seemed essential to the twentieth-century idea of a cultivated man. The best acquisition of a cultivated man is a liberal frame of mind or way of thinking; but there must be added to that possession acquaintance with

5676-474: The present number we print the first article in "The Great American Fraud" series, which is to describe thoroughly the ways and methods, as well as the evils and dangers, of the patent medicine business. This article is but the opening gun of the campaign, and is largely introductory in character, but it will give the reader a good idea of what is to come when Mr. Adams gets down to peculiarities. The next article, to appear two weeks hence, will treat of " Peruna and

5762-425: The printing year could be over 20 years later (or more). Some clues about the printing history can help identify the print run year. For example, the inclusion of the "Lectures" began in 1914. Additionally, the "Editor's Introduction" in volume 50 includes a second "Editor's Introduction" that is dated in 1917. Fabrikoid was first used as binding for The Harvard Classics in 1919. Lastly, the publishing company marketed

5848-453: The prodigious store of recorded discoveries, experiences, and reflections which humanity in its intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization has acquired and laid up. The idea of the Harvard Classics was presented in speeches by then President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. Several years prior to 1909, Eliot gave a speech in which he remarked that a three-foot shelf would be sufficient to hold enough books to give

5934-671: The property occupied by the Collier plant, and "excessive postage involved in mailing from a seaboard city under wartime postal rates. After 1924, printing of the magazine was done at the Crowell-Collier printing plant on West High Street in Springfield , Ohio. The factory complex, much of which is no longer standing (finally razed in 2020), was built between 1899 and 1946, and incorporated seven buildings that together had more than 846,000 square feet (78,600 m )—20 acres (81,000 m )—of floor space. Collier's popularized

6020-425: The proposal of P.F. Collier & Son. The agreement allowed Eliot to engage an assistant. He chose William A. Neilson , Professor of English at Harvard University. The English Bible was excluded because Eliot and Neilson felt that almost every household would already possess at least one copy. The contributions of living authors (other than scientific contributions) were excluded because Eliot and Neilson considered

6106-402: The publication of the 558-page A Cavalcade of Collier's , edited by Kenneth McArdle (Barnes, 1959). Cornelius Ryan 's 1957 book One Minute to Ditch! , about the successful ocean ditching of a Pan American Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, was an expansion of his Collier's article on December 21, 1956. Ryan was an associate editor of the magazine during the mid-1950s, and the novelist Lonnie Coleman

6192-424: The publisher Robert J. Collier also signed the sets numbered from 412 to 973 over mottled cream boards, (2) set limited to 1,000 numbered and autographed "Eliot Edition" books over green cloth boards, and (3) a set limited to 1,000 (unsigned) called the "Alumni Edition" on the spine bound over crimson boards, and (4) a set of unknown number called the "Library Edition" (stated as limited edition, but number of printings

6278-423: The publisher, P.F. Collier, who sold some 350,000 sets within 20 years of the series' initial publication". The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may claim to constitute a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority. The main function of the collection should be to develop and foster in many thousands of people a taste for serious reading of

6364-701: The short-short story which was often planned to fit on a single page. Knox Burger was Collier's fiction editor from 1948 to 1951 when he left to edit books for Dell and Fawcett Publications ; he was replaced by Eleanor Stierhem Rawson. The numerous authors who contributed fiction to Collier's included F. Scott Fitzgerald , Ray Bradbury , Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd , Willa Cather , Roald Dahl , Jack Finney , Erle Stanley Gardner , Zane Grey , Ring Lardner , Sinclair Lewis , E. Phillips Oppenheim , J. D. Salinger , Kurt Vonnegut , Louis L'Amour , Albert Payson Terhune and Walter Tevis . Humor writers included Parke Cummings and H. Allen Smith . Serializing novels during

6450-451: The top editorial cartoonist at Collier's , one of the few publications then displaying editorial cartoons in full color. During the 1940s, Gurney Williams was the cartoon editor for Collier's , American Magazine and Woman's Home Companion , paying $ 40 to $ 150 for each cartoon. From a staggering stack of some 2000 submissions each week, Williams made a weekly selection of 30 to 50 cartoons, lamenting: The other day I found myself staring at

6536-572: The wishes of Eliot that The Harvard Classics are priced within everybody's reach. An extremely popular crimson-colored silk cloth set similar to the look of the De Luxe Morocco edition began printing in 1914 and was called the Cambridge edition. Variations of the Cambridge edition were printed for over a decade in cloth over hardboards and later (after 1919) in an imitation leather binding material called fabrikoid . In 1919 Collier announced

6622-401: The year of the print run. Collier's renewed the copyrights for The Harvard Classics 28 years after filing the first copyrights for The Harvard Classics (as was customary at the time, as it offered some legal advantages) in 1936 and 1937. Coliier's again renewed the copyrights in 1956 and 1959, and several times in the sixties as editions were printed in different page sizes and fonts (resulting

6708-691: Was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer , graduated in the University of Edinburgh in 1891 and became a PhD in Harvard University in 1898. He was president of Smith College between 1917 and 1939. Neilson was born in Doune , Scotland on 28 March 1869. He emigrated to the United States in 1895, being naturalised 3 August 1905. He taught at Bryn Mawr College from 1898 to 1900, Harvard from 1900 to 1904, Columbia from 1904 to 1906, and Harvard again from 1906 to 1917. Neilson

6794-401: Was adapted into a 1932 film and a 1951 Wally Wood comic book, was first published as a 12-part Collier's serial, running from May 7 to July 23, 1932. The May 7 issue displayed a memorable cover illustration by famed maskmaker Władysław T. Benda , and his mask design for that cover was repeated by many other illustrators in subsequent adaptations and reprints. A 1951 condensed version of

6880-483: Was appealing to buyers for the elaborate illustrations, frontispieces, plates, portraits, facsimiles, and crimson silk page markers (features unlikely to be found in later printings). The colophon found on the ultimate page of content of first editions notes these sets were "planned and designed by William Patten" (the Book Manager at P.F. Collier & Son). The exact numbers of each of the three bindings making up

6966-538: Was author of a number of critical works on William Shakespeare , Robert Burns and the Elizabethan theatre , editor of the Cambridge and Tudor editions of Shakespeare (1906, 1911) and editor of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition (1934). Less known is his translation of the famous late 14th century Middle English alliterative chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . Neilson

7052-485: Was due to the difficulty in enforcing the referendum, and people's unwillingness to stay away from alcohol. The new law brought about bribing, thieving, corruption and other ills, which far exceeded their expectations. This new alignment gained favor with the public and helped to rebuild circulation. Writers such as Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway , who reported on the Spanish Civil War , helped boost

7138-863: Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914 and the American Philosophical Society in 1944. He died at the Smith College infirmary in Northampton, Massachusetts on 13 February 1946. Collier%27s Collier's was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier . It was launched as Collier's Once a Week , then renamed in 1895 as Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal , shortened in 1905 to Collier's: The National Weekly and eventually to simply Collier's . The magazine ceased publication with

7224-776: Was featured on the cover, pregnant with her first child Caroline . The company also published the Collier's Encyclopedia , Collier Books and the Collier's Year Book . Patricia Fulford edited Over 100 Best Cartoons from Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, The American Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, Argosy, Sport (Checkerbooks, 1949), and Collier's cartoon editor Gurney Williams edited Collier's Kids: Cartoons from Collier's About Your Children , Holt, 1952. Collier's fiction editor Knox Burger chose 19 stories for Collier's Best (Harper & Bros., 1951). He also selected Best Stories from Collier's (William Kimber, 1952). A huge history and collection appeared with

7310-464: Was named after the birthplace of one of the founders of Harvard College, John Harvard , who was born in London Borough of Southwark . The set is often referred to as the "Veritas" edition; however, the "Veritas" edition is bound in a dark crimson color promoted by DuPont. The new binding material, called fabrikoid , offered less weight, flexible boards, and bindings that were more durable than

7396-474: Was replaced as editor for the next couple years by Robert J. Collier , the son of the founder. Arthur H. Vandenberg , later to become a prominent Senator , had a brief stint as a Collier's editor during the 1900s. H. C. Witwer was a war correspondent in France during World War I. Rob Wagner covered the film industry for Collier's during the 1920s. They reversed their position on prohibition in 1925. This

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