Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc University of Chicago Notes "Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the editor." L.C. copy neither numbered nor signed General t.p. in volume 1 only: each volume has ...

Shortly after I moved to New York at the age of 19, a friend bought a set of the Great Books of the Western World, published by the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a wonderful set.

The former longtime chairman of the board of editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Adler co-founded the “Great Books of the Western World” series 50 years ago to make classic philosophy and ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- After 244 years, Encyclopedia Britannica will cease production of its iconic multi-volume book sets. Britannica usually prints a new set of the tomes every two years, but ...

The Great Books and the Aspen Institute’s seminars nourished a vibrant reading community in Aspen. Publication of Great Books of the Western World coincided with the creation of the Institute’s ...

Originally published by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1952, Great Books of the Western World offered a selection of core texts representing the highest achievements of European and North American culture ...

Adler’s Syntopicon, as the index has since become known, would go on to be published as volumes two and three of the encyclopedia’s Great Books of the Western World 54-volume compendium.

The Great Books of the Western World were ostentatiously launched on April 15, 1952, at a glittering black-tie affair in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.