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This series began in September 1968 with the publication of AC1 The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. However, with both 'Pelicans' and 'Classics' already existing - there was difficulty in estblishing a clear niche. By the early 1970's, with just over 20 books produced the series became less frequent and only about 30 titles were produced in total.

Information and cover photographs of Pelican Classics Series:

AC 1	Series No.: AC 1 Title: ORIGIN OF SPECIES by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life Author: Charles Darwin Edited: and with an introduction by J. W. Burrow Cover design: shows detail from a 4th Century mosiac (National Museum, Naples) Date Published: September 1968 Pages: 478pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 40p 8/-
AC 2	Series No.: AC 2 Title: LEVIATHAN Author: Thomas Hobbes Edited: and with an introduction by C. B. Macpherson Cover design: based on detail from the engraved page of the first edition of 'Leviathan' (British Museum, London) Date Published: September 1968 Pages: 736pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 50p 10/-
AC 3	Series No.: AC 3 Title: REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event Author: Edmund Burke Edited: and with an introduction by Conor Cruise O'Brien Cover: shows detail from 'The Tree of Freedom 1789' (Musée Carnavalet) Date Published: April 1969 Pages: 400pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 7/-
AC 4	Series No.: AC 4 Title: ON WAR Author: Carl von Clausewitz Edited: by Anatol Rapoport Cover: shows part of a silver chess set by Man Ray, photograph by Joly-Cardot Date Published: September 1968 Pages: 464pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 8/-
AC 5	Series No.: AC 5 Title: THE ABC OF COMMUNISM Author: N. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky Edited with introduction: by E. H. Carr Translated: from the Russian by Eden and Cedar Paul Cover: shows detail from a Russian poster of 1922 for proletarian dictatorship (in private collection) Date Published: April 1969 Pages: 482pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 40p 8/- Image and additional information courtesy of Jim Eager
AC 6	Series No.: AC 6 Title: COMPLETE WORKS Author: George Saville, First Marquess of Halifax Edited: and with an introduction by J. P. Kenyon Cover design: shows detail from a portrait of George Saville, First Marquess of Halifax by an unknown artist (National Portrait Gallery) Date Published: April 1969 Pages: 352pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 40p 8/-
AC 7	Series No.: AC 7 Title: A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE Author: David Hume Edited: by Ernest C. Mossner Cover: shows detail from a portrait of David Hume by Allan Ramsay, (Scottish National Gallery), photograph by Tom Scott Date Published: October 1969 Pages: 240pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 30p 6/-
AC 8	Series No.: AC 8 Title: A NEW VIEW OF SOCIETY AND REPORT TO THE COUNTY OF LANARK Author: Robert Owen Edited: by V. A. C. Gatrell Date Published: March 1970 Pages: 272pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 35p 7/-
AC 9	Series No.: AC 9 Title: THE AMERICAN DEMOCRAT Author: James Fenimore Cooper Edited: by George Dekker and Larry Johnston Cover: shows detail from 'The Old House of Representatives', 1822, by Samuel Breese Morse Date Published: October 1969 Pages: 240pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 30p 6/-
AC10	Series No.: AC10 Title: MAN VERSUS THE STATE Author: Herbert Spencer Edited and introduction: by Donald MacRae Cover: shows detail from 'Design for a Lighthouse' by Boullée (Collection Martelli, Florence) Date Published: March 1970 [printed date: 1969] Pages: 350pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 40p 8/- Image and additional information courtesy of Jim Eager
AC11	Series No.: AC11 Title: RIGHTS OF MAN Author: Thomas Paine Edited: by Henry Collins Cover: shows detail from 'Election Scene, Catonsville, Baltimore County', c.1860 by Alfred Jacob Miller (Concoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) Date Published: October 1969 Pages: 312pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 35p 7/-
AC12	Series No.: AC12 Title: THE WEALTH OF NATIONS Author: Adam Smith Edited: by Andrew Skinner Cover: photograph by Hawkley Studio of a medal issued in 1797 to commemorate 'The Wealth of Nations' Date Published: 1970 Pages: 844pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: 50p 10/-
AC13	Series No.: AC13 Title: THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN (Books I and III): The Reigns of James I and Charles I Author: David Hume Edited: by Duncan Forbes Cover: shows detail from Weesop's imaginary reconstruction of the execution of Charles I (loan, Scottish National Portrait Gallery) Date Published: 1970 Pages: 692pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 65p 13/-
AC14	Series No.: AC14 Title: THE DISCOURSES Author: Niccolò Machiavelli Edited: and with an introduction by Bernard Crick Revised: by Brian Richardson Translated: using translation by Leslie J. Walker Cover: design by Germano Facetti, shows a detail from 'Martyrdom of Savonarola' by an unknown Florentine painter (Museo San Marco, Florence) Date Published: 1970 Pages: 544pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: 50p 10/-
AC15	Series No.: AC15 Title: THE THEORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY Author: W. Stanley Jevons Edited: by R. D. Collison Black Date Published: October 1970 Pages: 272pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: 35p 7/-
AC16	Series No.: AC16 Title: THE FABLE OF THE BEES Author: Bernard Mandeville Edited: by Phillip Harth Date Published: October 1970 Pages: 416pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: 40p 8/-
AC17	Series No.: AC17 Title: PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY: With Some of their Applications to Social Philosophy (Books IV and V) Author: John Stuart Mill Edited: with an introduction by Donald Winch Date Published: October 1970 Pages: 392pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 40p 8/-
AC18	Series No.: AC18 Title: ESSAYS ON POPULATION: AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION and A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION Author: Thomas Robert Malthus Edited: with an introduction by Anthony Flew Cover: shows detail from 'Feast of Venus' by Titian Date Published: 1970 Pages: 296pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 35p 7/-
AC19	Series No.: AC19 Title: PRINCIPLE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND TAXATION Author: David Ricardo Edited: by R. M. Hartwell Cover: shows detail from 'The Money Changer' by Marinus von Reymerswaele Date Published: 1971 Pages: 432pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 40p 8/-
AC20	Series No.: AC20 Title: CHARLES BOOTH'S LONDON: A Portrait of the Poor at the Turn of the Century drawn from his Life and Labour of the People in London Selected and edited: by Albert Fried and Richard M. Elman Foreword: by Raymond Williams Cover: design by Germano Facetti using a contemporary photograph in Mansell Collection Date Published: 1971 Pages: 446pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: 50p 10/-
AC21	Series No.: AC21 Title: MUTUAL AID AND THE CONQUEST OF BREAD Author: Peter Kropotkin Edited: by Paul Avrick Date Published: Pages: Printer: Price:
AC22	Series No.: AC22 Title: CONCERNING: THE CITY OF GOD against the Pagans Author: Augustine Translated: by Henry Bettenson Introduction: by David Knowles Cover: design by Germano Facetti shows a detail from the 'World Chronicle' by Ekkehard von Aura (State Library, Berlin) Date Published: 1972 Pages: 1,098pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: £1.50
AC23	Series No.: AC23 Title: THE LAW OF FREEDOM and other Writings Author: Gerrard Winstanley Edited: with an introduction by Christopher Hill Cover: design by Germano Facetti shows an engraving taken froma Levellers' broadsheet of 1649 Date Published: 1973 Pages: 400pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: £75p
AC24	Series No.: AC24 Title: THE UNKNOWN MAYHEW: Selections from the Morning Chronicle 1849-50 Author: Henry Mayhew Edited: with introductions by E. P. Thompson and Eileen Yeo Cover: shows detail from an engraving by Gustave Doré Date Published: 1973 Pages: 592pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: £1.00
AC26	Series No.: AC26 Title: THE POOR LAW REPORT OF 1834 Edited: with an introduction by S.G. and E. O. A. Checkland Cover: *shows an engraving from Mayhew's London* of The Kitchen, Fox Court, Gray's Inn Lane Date Published: 1974 Pages: 520pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: £1.00**
AC27	Series No.: AC27 Title: AN ESSAY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE (The Edition of 1845) Author: John Henry Newman Edited: with an introduction by J. M. Cameron Cover: shows a water-colour prortrait of Newman painted in 1845 by Sir William Ross (Keeble College, Oxford) Date Published: 1974 Pages: 456pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 70p
AC28	Series No.: AC28 Title: ON LIBERTY Author: John Stuart Mill Edited: with an introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb Cover: *shows detail of a caricature of J. S. Mill by 'Spy', from the Vanity Fair Album* of 1873, photograph by Mary Evans Date Published: 1974 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: 50p**
AC29	Series No.: AC29 Title: A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Edited: with an introduction by Miriam Brody Kramnick Cover: *shows the frontispiece to 'Visions of the Daughters of Albion'* by William Blake (British Museum, London), photograph by John Freeman Date Published: 1975 Pages: 320pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: £1.00**
AC30	Series No.: AC30 Title: ENQUIRY CONCERNING POLITICAL JUSTICE and its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness Author: William Godwin Edited: by Isaac Kramnick Cover: shows a cartoon 'Universal Suffrage or the Scum Uppermost-!!!' by George Cruickshank, photograph by Rodney Todd-White Date Published: 1976 Pages: 832pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: £2.25
AC31	Series No.: AC31 Title: HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS Author: Hippocrates and others Edited: by G. E. R. Lloyd Date Published: 1978 Pages: 384pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: £1.95
AC32	Series No.: AC32 Title: COMMON SENSE Author: Thomas Paine Edited: with an introduction by Isaac Kramnick Cover: shows detail of the Bennington Flag of 1776, the first raised after the Declaration of Independence (Bennington Museum, Vermont) Date Published: 1976 Pages: 128pp. Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd Price: 60p

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