Following the success of Quadrivium, Sciencia, and Designa in the acclaimed Wooden Books series, Trivium is a compendium of writings on the Classical subjects at the heart of a Liberal education, bringing the wisdom of the past into the twenty-first century.
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Eco friendly and educational.
Small but stuffed with information.
Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books are designed not to date.
The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the Classical philosophies, Arts and sciences.
Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye.
Trivium will include the books Euphonics , Grammar , Logic , Rhetoric , Poetic Meter and Form , and Ethics .
Following on the success of Quadrivium and Sciencia , Trivium gathers six Wooden Books titles together into a beautiful six-color package that presents ancient wisdom in an accessible way.
The trivium refers to the three Liberal Arts considered in Classical Greece to be the pillars of critical thought: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Following the success of Quadrivium, Sciencia, and Designa in the acclaimed Wooden Books series, Trivium is a compendium of writings on the Classical subjects at the heart of a Liberal education, bringing the wisdom of the past into the twenty-first century
