Biblioteca pentru toți

Biblioteca pentru toți (BPT, Library For All) is a Romanian collection that was initiated by the writer and folklorist Dumitru Stăncescu and published from March 1, 1895, by the publisher Carol Müller, who was inspired by the German pocket collection Reclams Universal-Bibliothek from Leipzig.

[1][2] The first issue from 1895 included "Selected stories" by Hans Christian Andersen, translated in Romanian by Dumitru Stăncescu.

[6] 1,700 numbered volumes that appeared in the collection between 1960 and 1970 (ESPLA and EPL) and 1970-2001 (Editura Minerva).

[7][8] In March 2009, Marius Tucă from Jurnalul Național launched a collection of books under the brand name "Biblioteca pentru toți", comprising 100 titles, most written by Romanian authors.

140,000 book pages with works from 31 literatures - Romanian, African, South African, American, Arabic, Belgian, Bulgarian, Czech, Chinese, Danish, Swiss, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Modern and Ancient Greek, Guatemalan, Yiddish, Indian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Hungarian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian and Spanish.