Pelican Classics

Perhaps the secret best imprint in the Penguin catalog, Pelican’s answer to the New English Library met the same fate as its fiction counterpart, eventually being absorbed into the Penguin Classics line with its third edition. Still, for its short lifetime, this series contains a tremendous hit-to-miss ratio, and its spirit (and indeed many of its texts) would eventually be drawn into the successful Great Ideas series decades later.

A relatively easy set to compile, only AC21 and AC25 are missing; there are hints that AC21 was appointed to “Mutual Aid and the Conquest of Bread,” but no evidence of the title exists.

#	Title	Author	Year	ISBN
AC1	The Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	1968
AC2	Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	1968
AC3	Reflections on the Revolution in France	Edmund Burke	1969
AC4	On War	Carl von Clausewitz	1968
AC5	The ABC of Communism	N. Bukharin	1969
AC6	Complete Works	Halifax	1969
AC7	A Treatise of Human Nature	David Hume	1969
AC8	Report to the County of Lanark / A New Society	Robert Owen	1970
AC9	The American Democrat	James Fenimore Cooper	1969
AC10	Man Versus the State	Herbert Spencer	1970
AC11	Rights of Man	Thomas Paine	1969
AC12	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	1970
AC13	The History of Great Britain, Books 1 and 3	David Hume	1970
AC14	The Discourses	Machiavelli	1970
AC15	The Theory of Political Economy	W. Stanley Jevons	1970
AC16	The Fable of the Bees	Bernard Mandeville	1970
AC17	Principals of Political Economy	John Stuart Mill	1970
AC18	An Essay on the Principle of Population	Thomas Malthus	1970
AC19	Priceiple of Political Economy and Taxation	David Ricardo	1971
AC20	Charles Booth’s London	Charles Booth	1971
AC21
AC22	City of God	Augustine	1972	140400229
AC23	The Law of Freedom and Other Writings	Gerrard Winstanley	1973	140400230
AC24	The Unknown Mayhew	Henry Mayhew	1973	140400249
AC25
AC26	The Poor Law Report of 1834	S.G. & E.O.A. Checkland, eds.	1974	140400265
AC27	An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctorine	John Henry Newman	1974	140400273
AC28	On Liberty	John Stuart Mill	1975	140400281
AC29	A Vindication of the Rights of Women	Mary Wollstonecraft	1975	14040029X
AC30	Enquiry Concerning Political Justice	William Godwin	1976	140400303
AC31	Hippocratic Writings	Hippocrates	1978	140400311
AC32	Common Sense	Thomas Paine	1976	14040032X