THE PITT PRESS SERIES (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS)
Series Note:
Format: Hardback. "Many of the books in this list can be had in two volumes, Text and Notes separately." -- More's Utopia. Rev. J. Rawson Lumby, ed. (C.U.P., 1891. The Pitt Press Series.)
The history of The Pitt Press Series:
"During the second part of the [nineteenth] century the University [of Cambridge] itself became outward-looking. It recognised a duty to the schools of the country, and not only to those which sent boys (and soon girls) to be educated at Cambridge. It took its part in the national examinations system, and the scheme of the Local Examinations was supervised by Cambridge as one of the main centres from 1858. (...] [In 1874 it occurred to G. F. Browne, the Secretary of the Local Examinations Syndicate] in drawing up syllabuses for examinations in English, modern languages and classics, the the Press might be asked to
undertake to undertake to supply the editions of texts which his Syndicate prescribed." [1]
This resulted late in 1874 in the launch of series that would soon become known as The Pitt Press Series for Schools (or, in short, The Pitt Press Series).
"Fifteen hundred of each book were printed, the books were stereotyped, the prices were fixed at two shillings (except Aeneid XII, which was 1s. 6d.) and the editors were paid £25, or £35 for a longer book. (...) Eventually the Pitt Press Series consisted of over two hundred volumes." [1]
Arranged under broad subject headings and then by author, title, editor, and other details (including price in shillings and pence).
I. GREEK.
Aristophanes.
Aves - Ptutus - Ranae.
Edited by W. C. Green, M.A., late Assistant at Rugby School.
3s.6d. each.
Aristotle.
Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle.
Edwin Wallace, M.A., LL.D., ed.
Third Edition, Enlarged. 4s. 6d.
Euripides.
Heracleidae.
E. A. Beck, M.A., ed.
3s. 6d.
Hercules Furens.
A. Gray, M.A., and J. T. Hutchinson, M.A., ed.
New Edition. 2s.
Hippolytus.
W. S. Hadley, M.A., ed.
2s.
Iphigenia in Aulis.
C. E. S. Headlam, M.A., ed.
2s.
Herodotus.
Book V.
E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., ed.
3s.
Book VI.
E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., ed.
4s.
Books VIII, IX.
E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., ed.
4s. each.
Book VIII, Ch. 1-90. Book IX, Ch. 1-89..
E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., ed.
3s. 6d. each.
Homer.
Odyssey, Books IX, X.
G. M. Edwards, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Odyssey, Books XXI.
G. M. Edwards, M.A., ed.
2s.
Iliad, Book VI.
G. M. Edwards, M.A., ed.
2s.
Iliad, Book XXII.
G. M. Edwards, M.A., ed.
2s.
Iliad, Book XXIII.
G. M. Edwards, M.A., ed.
2s.
Lucian.
Somnium Charon Piscator et De Luctu.
Edited by W. E. Heitland, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
3s. 6d.
Menippus and Timon.
Edited by E. C. Mackie, B.A.
3s. 6d.
Plato.
Platonis Apologia Socratis.
J. Adam, M.A., ed.
3s. 6d.
Platonis Crito.
J. Adam, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Platonis Euthyrphro.
J. Adam, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Plutarch.
Lives of the Greeks.
Rev. H. A. Holden, M.A, LL.D., ed.
6s.
Life of Nicias.
Rev. H. A. Holden, M.A, LL.D., ed.
5s.
Life of Sulla.
Rev. H. A. Holden, M.A, LL.D., ed.
6s.
Life of Timoleon.
Rev. H. A. Holden, M.A, LL.D., ed.
6s.
Sophocles.
Oedipus Tyrannus. School Edition.
R. C. Jebb, Litt.D., LL.D., ed.
4s. 6d.
Thucydides.
Book VII.
H. A. Holden, M.A, LL.D., ed.
5s>
Xenophon.
Agesilaus.
H. Hailstone, ed.
2s. 6s.
Anabasis.
A. Pretor, M.A., ed.
Two vols. 7s. 6d.
Books I., III., IV. and V.
A. Pretor, M.A., ed.
2s. each.
Books II., VI. and VII.
A. Pretor, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d. each.
Xenophon.
Cyropaedeia. Books I., II.
Rev. H. A. Holden, M.A, LL.D., ed.
2 vols. 6s.
Cyropaedeia. Books IIII., IV. and V.
Rev. H. A. Holden, M.A, LL.D., ed.
5s.
Cyropaedeia. Books VI., VII., and VIII.
Rev. H. A. Holden, M.A, LL.D., ed.
5s.
II. LATIN.
Bede.
Beda's Ecclesiastical History, Books III, IV.
J. E. B. Mayor, M.A., and J. R. Lumby, D.D., eds.
Revised Edition. 7s. 6d.
Beda's Ecclesiastical History, Books I, II.
J. E. B. Mayor, M.A., and J. R. Lumby, D.D., eds.
In the Press.
Caesar.
De Bello Gallico, Comment. I.
Edited by A. G. Peskett, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
1s. 6d.
De Bello Gallico, Comment. II., III.
Edited by A. G. Peskett, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
2s.
De Bello Gallico, Comment. I., II., III.
Edited by A. G. Peskett, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
3s.
De Bello Gallico, Comment. IV. and V.
Edited by A. G. Peskett, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
1s. 6d.
De Bello Gallico, Comment. VII.
Edited by A. G. Peskett, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
2s.
De Bello Gallico, Comment. VI and Comment. VIII.
Edited by A. G. Peskett, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
1s. 6d. each.
De Bello Civili, Comment. I.
Edited by A. G. Peskett, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
3s.
Cicero.
De Amicitia. -- De Senectute.
Edited by J. S. Reid, Litt.D., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
3s. 6d.
In Gaium Verrem actio Prima.
H. Cowie, M.A.
1s. 6d.
In Q. Caecilium Divinatio et in C. Verrem Actio.
W. E. Heitland, M.A., and H. Cowie, M.A., eds.
Philippica Secunda.
A. G. Peskett, M.A., ed.
3s. 6d.
Oratio pro Archia Poeta.
J. S. Reid, Litt.D., ed.
2s.
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo Oratio.
J. S. Reid, Litt.D., ed.
1s. 6d.
Oratio pro Tito Annio Milone.
John Smyth Purton, B.D., ed.
2s. 6d.
Oratio pro L. Murena.
W. E. Heitland, M.A., ed.
3s.
Pro Cn. Plancio Oratio.
H. A. Holden, LL.D., ed.
4s. 6d.
Pro P. Cornelio Sulla.
J. S. Reid, Litt.D., ed.
3s. 6d.
Somnium Scipionis.
W. D. Pearman, M.A.
2s.
Horace.
Epistles, Book I.
E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Livy.
Book IV.
H. M. Stephenson, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Book IV.
W. Whibley, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Book VI.
H. M. Stephenson, M.A., ed.
In the Press.
Book IX.
H. M. Stephenson, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Book XXI.
M. S. Dimsdale, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Book XXII.
M. S. Dimsdale, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Book XXVII.
H. M. Stephenson, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Lucan.
Pharsaliae Liber Primus.
W. E. Heitland, M.A., and C. E. Haskins, M.A., eds.
1s. 6d.
Lucretius.
Book V.
J. D. Duff, M.A., ed.
2s.
Ovid.
Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum Liber VI.
Edited by A. Sidgwick, M.A., Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
1s. 6d.
Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Liber I.
L. D. Dowdall, LL.B., B.D., ed.
Nearly ready.
Quintus Curtius.
A Portion of the History (Alexander in India).
W. E. Heitland, M.A., and T. E. Raven, B.A.
With Two Maps.
3s. 6d.
Vergil.
Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Libri I. -- XII.
A. Sidgwick, M.A., ed.
1s. 6d.
Bucolica.
A. Sidgwick, M.A., ed.
1s. 6d.
Georgicon Libri I. II.
A. Sidgwick, M.A., ed.
2s.
Georgicon Libri III. IV.
A. Sidgwick, M.A., ed.
2s.
The Complete Works.
A. Sidgwick, M.A., ed.
Two vols.
Vol. I. containing the Introduction and Text. 3s. 6d.Vol. II. The Notes. 4s. 6d.
III. FRENCH.
Corneille.
La Suite du Menteur: A Comedy in Five Acts.
The late G. Masson, B.A., ed.
2s.
Polyeucte.
E. G. W. Braunholtz, M.A., Ph.D.
In the Press.
De Bonnechose.
Lazare Hoche.
C. Colbeck, M.A., ed.
Revised Edition. Four Maps.
2s.
D'Harleville.
Le Vieux Célibataire.
The late G. Masson, B.A., ed.
2s.
De Lamartine.
Jeanne D'Arc.
Rev. A. C. Clapin, M.A., ed.
New edition revised by A. R. Ropes, M.A.
1s. 6d.
De Vigny.
La Canne de Jonc.
H. W. Eve, M.A., ed.
1s. 6d.
Erckmann-Chatrian.
La Guerre.
Rev. A. C. Clapin, M.A., ed.
3s.
La Baronne de Staël-Holstein.
Le Directoire (Considérations sur la Révolution Française. Troisième et quatrième parties.)
Revised and enlarged.
The late G. Masson, B.A., and G. W. Prothero, M.A., eds.
2s.
Dix Années d'Exil. Livre II. Chapitres 1-8.
The late G. Masson, B.A., and G. W. Prothero, M.A., eds.
New Edition, enlarged.
2s.
Lemercier.
Fredegonde et Brunehaut. A Tragedy in Five Acts.
The late G. Masson, B.A., ed.
2s.
Molière.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Comédie-Ballet en Cinq Actes. (1670.)
Rev. A. C. Clapin, M.A., ed.
Revised Edition.
1s. 6d.
L'Ecole des Femmes.
G. Saintsbury, M.A., ed.
2s. 6d.
Les Précieuses Ridicules.
E. G. W. Braunholtz, M.A., Ph.D., ed.
2s.
Abridged Edition. 1s.
Piron.
La Métromanie. A Comedy.
The late G. Masson, B.A., ed.
2s.
Racine.
Les Plaideurs.
E. G. W. Braunholtz, M.A., ed.
2s.
Abridged Edition. 1s.
Sainte-Beuve.
M. Daru. (Causeries du Lundi, Vol. IX.)
The late G. Masson, B.A., ed.
2s.
Saintine.
Picciola.
Rev. A. C. Clapin, M.A., ed.
2s.
Scribe and Legouvé.
Bataille des Dames.
Rev. H. A. Bull, M.A.
2s.
Scribe.
Le Verre d'Eau.
C. Colbeck, M.A., ed.
2s.
Sédaine.
Le Philosophe sans le savoir.
Rev. H. A. Bull, M.A.
2s.
Thierry.
Lettres sur l'histoire de France (XIII.-XXIV.).
The late G. Masson, B.A., and G. W. Prothero, M.A., eds.
2s. 6d.
Récits des Temps Mérovingiens I.-III.
Gustave Masson, B.A. Univ. Gallic., and A. R. Ropes, M.A., eds.
With Map.
3s.
Villemain.
Lascaris ou Les Grecs du XVe Siècle, Nouvelle Historique.
The late G. Masson, B.A., ed.
2s.
Voltaire.
Histoire du Siècle de Louis XIV. Chaps. I.-XIII.
The late G. Masson, B.A., and G. W. Prothero, M.A., eds.
2s. 6d.
Part II. Chaps. XIV.-XXIV.
2s. 6d.
Part III.
Chaps. XXV. to end.
2s. 6d.
Xavier de Maistre.
La Jeune Sibérienne. Le Lépreux de la Cité D'Aoste.
The late G. Masson, B.A., ed.
IV. GERMAN.
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Ballads on German History.
W. Wagner, Ph.D., ed.
2s.
Benedix.
Doctor Wespe. Lustspiel in fünf Aufzügen.
Karl Hermann Breul, M.A., Ph.D., ed.
3s.
Freytag.
Der Staat Friedrichs des Grossen.
Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D., ed.
2s.
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German Dactylic Poetry.
Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D., ed.
3s.
Goethe.
Goethe's Knabenjahre. (1749-1761.)
Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D., ed.
New edition revised and enlarged, by J. W. Cartmell, M.A.
2s.
Hermann und Dorothea.
Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D., ed.
New edition revised, by J. W. Cartmell, M.A.
3s. 6d.
Gutzkow.
Zopf und Schwert. Lustspiel in fünf Aufzügen.
H. J. Wolstenholme, B.A. (Lond.), ed.
3s. 6d.
Hauff.
Das Bild des Kaisers.
Karl Hermann Breul, M.A., Ph.D., University Lecturer in German.
3s.
Das Wirthshaus im Spessart.
A. Schlottmann, Ph.D.
3s. 6d.
Die Karavane.
A. Schlottmann, Ph.D.
3s.
Immermann.
Der Oberhof. A Tale of Westphalian Life.
Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D., ed.
3s.
Kohlrausch.
Das Jahr 1813.
Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D., ed.
2s.
Lessing and Gellert.
Selected Fables.
Karl Hermann Breul, M.A., Ph.D., ed.
3s.
Mendelsohn.
Selections from Mendelsohn's Letters.
J. Sime, M.A., ed.
3s.
Raumer.
Der erste Kreuzzug (1095-1099.
Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D., ed.
2s.
Riehl.
Culturgeschichtliche Novellen.
H. J. Wolstenholme, B.A. (Lond.), ed.
3s. 6d.
Schiller.
Wilhelm Tell.
Karl Hermann Breul, M.A., Ph.D., ed.
2s. 6d.
Abridged Edition. 1s. 6d.
Geschichte des Dreissigjährigen Kriegs.
Karl Hermann Breul, M.A., Ph.D., ed.
Nearly ready.
Uhland.
Ernst, Herzog von Schwaben.
H. J. Wolstenholme, B.A., ed.
3s. 6d.
V. ENGLISH.
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Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero, A Sketch of.
Joseph B. Mayor, M.A.
3s. 6d.
[Sidney.]
An Apologie for Poetrie by Sir Philip Sidney.
E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., ed.
The Text is a revision of that of the first edition of 1595.
3s.
Bacon.
Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII.
Rev. Professor Lumby, D.D., ed.
3s.
Cowley.
Cowley's Essays.
Rev. Professor Lumby, D.D., ed.
3s.
---.
Discourse of the Commonwealf of thys Realme of Englande.
First printed in 1581, and commonly attributed to W.S. [William Shakespeare]. Edited from the MSS. by Elizabeth Lamond.
In the Press.
Milton.
Milton's Comus and Arcades.
Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A., sometime scholar of Trinity College.
3s.
Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso and Lycias.
Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A., sometime scholar of Trinity College.
2s. 6d.
Milton's Samson Agonistes.
Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A., sometime scholar of Trinity College.
2s. 6d.
Milton's Paradise Lost. Books XI. XII.
Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A., sometime scholar of Trinity College.
2s.
Milton's Paradise Lost. Books V. VI.
Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A., sometime scholar of Trinity College.
In the Press.
More.
More's History of King Richard III.
J. R. Lumby, D.D., ed.
3s. 6d.
More's Utopia.
Rev. Prof. Lumby, D.D.
3s. 6d.
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The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Rev. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D.
3s. 6d.
VI. EDUCATIONALSCIENCE.
Comenius, John Amos, the Bishop of the Moravians.
His Life and Educational Works.
S. S. Lawrie, A.M., F.R.S.E.
3s. 6d.
Eve, H. W., et al.
Education,Three Lectures on the Practice of.
I. On Marking, by H. W. Eve, M.A.
II. On Stimulus, by A. Sidgwick, M.A.
III. On the Teaching of Latin Verse Composition, by K. A. Abbott, D.D.
2s.
[Sidgwick, A.]
Stimulus. A Lecture delivered for the Teachers' Training Syndicate, May, 1882, by A. Sidgwick, M.A.
1s.
Locke.
Locke on Education.
Rev. R. H. Quick, M.A.
3s, 6d.
Milton.
Milton's Tractate on Education.
A facsimile reprint from the Edition of 1673.
O. Browning, M.A., ed.
2s.
---.
Modern Languages, Lectures on the Teaching of.
C. Colbeck, M.A., ed.
2s.
[Farrar & Poole.]
Teaching, Theory and Practice of, and Form Management. Two Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge in the Lent Term, 1883, by F. W. Farrar, D.D., and R. B. Poole, B.D.
1s. 6d.
[Thring.]
Teaching, Theory and Practice of.
Rev. E. Thring, late Head Master of Uppington School.
New Edition.
4s. 6d.
* * *
[Carlos.]
British India, a Short History of.
E. S. Carlos, M.A., late Head Master of Exeter Grammar School.
1s.
[Mill.]
Geography, Elementary Commercial. A Sketch of the Commodities and the Countries of the World.
H. R. Mill, D.Sc., F.R.S.E.
1s.
[Bartholomew.]
Geography, an Atlas of Commercial. (A Companion to the above.)
J. G. Bartholomew, F.R.G.S. with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc.
3s.
VII. MATHEMATICS.
[Smith].
Arithmetic for Schools.
C. Smith, M.A., Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
3s. 6d.
[Rouse Ball.]
Elementary Algebra (with Answers to the Answers).
W. W. rouse Ball, M.A.
4s. 6d.
[Euclid.]
Euclid's Elements of Geometry. Books I. and II.
H. M. Taylor, M.A., ed.
1s. 6d.
Euclid's Elements of Geometry. Books III. and IV.
H. M. Taylor, M.A., ed.
1s. 6d.
Euclid's Elements of Geometry. Books I.-IV., in one volume.
H. M. Taylor, M.A., ed.
3s.
[Taylor.]
Solutions to the Exercises in Euclid, Books I.-IV.
W. W. Taylor, M.A.
In the Press.
[Loney.]
Elements of Statics and Dynamics.
S. L. Loney, M.A.
7s. 6d.
Or in two parts:
Part I. Elements of Statics. 4s. 6d.
Part II. Elements of Dynamics. 3s. 6d.
[Hobson/Jessop.]
An Elementary Treatise on Plane Trigonometry for the Use of Schools.
E. W. Hobson, Sc.D., and C. M. Jessop, M. A.
In the Press.
LATER VOLUMES
Macaulay, Lord.
The Lays of Ancient Rome and Other Poems.
Lord Macaulay
Sources of the above list:
(1) More's Utopia. Rev. J. Rawson Lumby, ed. (C.U.P., 1891. The Pitt Press Series.)
(2) Various online databases.
Footnote
1. Cambridge University Press 1584-1984 by M. H. Black. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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