Excellent condition- most have never been cracked open. Volume 37 has slight upper spine damage.

The complete set of the Britannica Great Books of the Western World, being 60 volumes featuring 517 works by 130 of Western Civilization’s greatest literary, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific minds together with the two volume Syntopicon index that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it and the saddle-stapled guide booklet. Works by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripdes, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Marx, Plutarch, Ptolemy, Melville, Moliere, Aristotle and more.

Special colors on the Great Books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas

The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors.

60 volumes

Individual Volume Size: 9 1/2" H x 1"-2" W (Across Spine) x 6 1/2” D