A beautiful and enthralling guide to more than 80 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and important written works, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to

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Following the success of Quadrivium and Sciencia, a compendium of six titles on art and design in the acclaimed Wooden Books series appears here in

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