Sir John Lubbock’s Hundred Books, 69 of The 100 books All Classics Must See List

A rare collection of books dating to the late 19th century there are 69 of the 100 on the list from Sir Johns Lubbocks Hundred Books 
This list was created in the Victorian period by Sir John Lubbock the books are all uniformed in binding with green cloth boards and gold gilded lettering to spines 

A rare opportunity to purchase a large chunk of the famous 100 books in one go  and will save a fortune compared to collecting them individually priced at 200 that’s less than £3 a book 


Taken from https://mairangibay.blogspot
One fateful evening in 1886, the Principal of the London Working-Men’s College, Sir John Lubbock, gave a speech to that institution. In it he outlined a list of 100 vital books which, if read attentively, might in themselves constitute a liberal education.

The idea took off with a vengeance, and after the list was reprinted in his essay-collection The Pleasures of Life, earnest self-improvers everywhere started to collect the various volumes. Lubbock himself never attended university, though he came from a privileged background, and had been educated at Eton by his wealthy family. A banker by profession, his real passions were archaeology and evolutionary biology, and he wrote extensively on both subjects.

Amongst other achievements, he was the the first to coin the terms "Neolithic" and "Palaeolithic" in one of his books about early man.


Full list of the 69 books included all are in good antique condition some light ware to covers and discolouration to pages commensurate with age.  This is with exception to the works of Shakespeare this book is a little battered and loose in binding but still intact 


The last days of Pompeii - Lytton
Essays lays in ancient Rome - McCauley
The Plays Of Eschylus - Potter 
Thoughts on religion - Pascal
Westward Ho - Charles Kingsley
Homers Iliad and Odyssey - Pope
The Plays of Aristophanes, Sophocles & Euripides 
Travels Vol 1  - Thumboldt
Travels Vol 2 - Thumboldt
Travels Vol 3 - Thumbold
Self Help - Smiles 
The Faerie Queene - Spenser
Principles of political economy - John Stuart Mill
The wealth of nations - Adam Smith
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Gullivers travels - Dean Swift
A system of logic - John Stuart Mill
Boswells life of Johnson - Mowbray Morris 
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata - Oman 
Vanity Fayre - Thackeray 
The anti-query Antiquary - Sir Walter Scott
William Tell - Schiller
Malory’s Mort D’Arthure - Wright 
Xenophons Anabasis and memorabilia- Watson
Holy Living & Dying - Jeremy Taylor 
Wordsworth poetical works
The vicar of Wakefield - Oliver goldsmith
The biographical history of philosophy - G H Lewes 
Miltons poetical works
Dantes Divine comedy - Longfellow
Sakoontala Monier Williams 
The odes and epodes of Horace - Lytton
Plutarch Lives - Langhorne
The confessions of St Angustine 
Shakespeare’s works Charles night
Adam Bede - George Elliot
Demosthenes upon the crown - Brougham 
Livy Books I-V Tacitus Germania and Agricola 
The history of Pendennis - Thackeray 
Scott’s poetical works
The Koran - Sale
Zadig Et Micromegas - Voltaire
Gibbons decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Dean Millman volume 1
Gibbons decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Dean Millman volume 2
Chaucer’s Canterbury tales - Trywhitt 
The Buddha and his religion - Saint hilaire 
The Apostolical Fathers - Wake
On the human understanding - Locke
Plays From Moliere
History of England volume 1 - Hume 
History of England volume 2 - Hume 
History of England volume 3 - Hume 
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Principles of human knowledge - Berkeley
Selection from the speeches & Writing - Edmund Berke 
Essays literary moral and political - Hume
The Nibelungen Lied  - AG Foster Barham 
Les Oeuvres De Moliere 
Captain cooks voyages 
The Chinese shi-king Jennings 
White’s natural history of Selbourne - Jardine
Essays from the Spectator - Addison
Sheridan’s Plays - Henry Morley
The Sháh-Námeh of Firdausi - Atkinson 
Goethe’s Faust - John Anster LL.D.
Burns’ Poetical Works - Robert Burns
The French Revolution - Carlyle
The Offices On Old Age On Friendship - Cicero