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A hardcover in fine condition, from a private library. Boards are warm mauve-brown linen cloth, clean and square, with a dark burgundy spine label bearing gilt lettering and the volume number 8 in a gilt box, with decorative gilt ruling bands and the Encyclopædia Britannica crest embossed in gilt at the base of the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. The Works of Aristotle, Volume I (Aristotle: I). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, 1952. Volume 8 of the Great Books of the Western World, a 54-volume series edited by Robert Maynard Hutchins, Editor in Chief, with Mortimer J. Adler as Associate Editor, published with the editorial advice of the faculties of the University of Chicago. Another volume from the same series — Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (Volume 52) — is also available in our shop. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.

This well-preserved hardcover is near fine, pages are tight and the book is tight, square, and in good condition. P.F. Collier & Son was a prominent American publishing company based in New York, founded in 1902. The company became well-known for its production of encyclopedias, books, and periodicals. The Harvard Classics Volume 2 was part of a famous collection of classic literature edited by Charles W. Eliot, L.L.D., and published by P.F. Collier & Son in 1909. Charles W. Eliot, a Harvard University professor, conceived the idea of the Harvard Classics as a way to provide a complete education by assembling the most important and influential works in literature, philosophy, history, and science. Eliot's goal was to create a series of works that could be read over the course of a lifetime. The Harvard Classics series is still widely regarded as one of the most ambitious and successful publishing projects of its time.