set book

plural set books · alternative setbook

1. CommonwealtheducationA book or other text assigned for reading as part of a course.

   Years later, when visiting Japan, I was assured that my book had been a set book at Kyoto University since 1943.

   1983, John Hicks, Classics and Moderns: Vol. III of Collected Essays in Economic Theory, →ISBN, page 361

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   Since the Apostolic Canons seem to have played the rôle of a set book at Wittenberg […] we may perhaps guess that Melanchthon and may be other lecturers commented on them several times.

   1961, Pierre Fraenkel, Testimonia Patrum: The Function of the Patristic Argument in the Theology of Philip Melanchthon, page 22

   Gladstone's method of learning was, as at Eton, the detailed Epitome, and the way he made these Epitomes shows that he learned his set books while making a direct relationship between them and his own times.

   1997, H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1898, →ISBN, page 20

   Synonyms: coursebook, set text