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    Posted 9 years ago

    mikeigotit
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    I came across these Booklets and man oh man trying to find them on the web is Hard, It was stated that The publisher, C W Daniel in 1902
    He’s the pacifist publisher who went to jail rather than pay a fine when the anti-war pamphlet he wrote was published.
    In 1902 Charles Daniel started his own small publishing business in Cursitor Street (off Chancery Lane, between Fleet Street and Holborn). He became associated with the Free Age Press, which had the agency for Tolstoy’s writings, and distributed them at such low prices that they could not have made a profit.
    The firm also issued a series of ‘People’s Classics’ (at 1d or 2d a copy) ‘printed to place in the hands of the masses, at the cheapest price, the richest thoughts of the world’s greatest thinkers’. The series included writings by Emerson, Aristotle, Socrates, Rousseau and others. Anyone with any information on any of these booklets please share. Thanks in advance.

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    1. tjoyceco, 9 years ago
      Mike, here are some of the authors and titles in your series of People's Classics.
      1. Marcus Aurelius. LIFE ACCORDING TO NATURE
      2. Mazzini. THOUGHTS UPON DEMOCRACY
      3. Epictetus. ENCHIRIDON
      5. Plato. SOCRATES ON LOVE
      6. Emerson. FRIENDSHIP
      7. Aristotle. ON HAPPINESS
      8. Browne, Tho. RELIGIO MEDICI
      9. Mohammed. AL KORAN
      12. Carlyle. WORK
      13. Thoreau. SIMPLE LIFE
      14. Tolstoy. SCRIBES AND PHARISEES
      15. Marcus Aurelius. SOME REFLECTIONS
      16. Swift. THOUGHTS ON MODERN CIVILIZATION
      19. Spinoza. ON DIVINE AND HUMAN LAW
      21. Schopenhauer. LIFE FORCE.
      For the record, these booklets are recorded in institutional libraries in numbers from one to six examples per title, with most from one to three. Good hunting !
    2. mikeigotit mikeigotit, 9 years ago
      Thanks Tjoyceco
    3. tjoyceco, 9 years ago
      17. Swedenborg. MARRIAGE - 4 copies located, including in Romania !

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