Hello,

I’m looking to build a personal library focused on **classical education, philosophy, logic, grammar, rhetoric and the liberal arts**.

If anyone has any **unwanted, spare or second-hand copies** of books in these areas that they no longer need, I would be very grateful. I’m particularly interested in older editions as well as modern introductions and commentaries.

I’m happy to **collect locally where possible**, or **pay reasonable postage costs** if the books need to be posted. I can also buy books if they are reasonably priced.

### Authors and classical works I’m particularly looking for

**Plato**

* *Republic*
* *Phaedo*
* *Meno*
* *Gorgias*
* *Phaedrus*
* *Cratylus*
* *Theaetetus*
* *Sophist*

**Aristotle**

* *Organon*

  * *Categories*
  * *On Interpretation*
  * *Prior Analytics*
  * *Posterior Analytics*
  * *Topics*
  * *Sophistical Refutations*
* *Rhetoric*
* *Poetics*
* *Metaphysics*
* *Physics*
* *Nicomachean Ethics*
* *On the Soul (De Anima)*

**Grammar & Language**

* Dionysius Thrax — *The Art of Grammar*
* Apollonius Dyscolus — *On Syntax*
* Priscian — *Institutiones Grammaticae*

**Rhetoric**

* Cicero — *De Oratore*
* Cicero — *Brutus*
* Quintilian — *Institutio Oratoria*

**Logic & Dialectic**

* Porphyry — *Isagoge*
* Boethius — works on logic

**Classical / Medieval Tradition**

* Augustine — *On Christian Doctrine*
* Boethius — *The Consolation of Philosophy*
* Avicenna (Ibn Sina) — works on logic and philosophy
* Al-Farabi — works on logic, language and rhetoric
* Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — commentaries on Aristotle

### Other books I’m particularly interested in

* *Euclid’s Elements*
* *History of Formal Logic*
* *The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric*
* *Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic & Rhetoric*
* *Learning to Flourish: A Philosophical Exploration of Liberal Education*
* *The Art of Persuasion: Aristotle’s Rhetoric for Everybody*
* *The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for Academic Essay*
* *Good Word Guide: The Indispensable Guide to Excellent Writing and Speaking*
* *Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil*
* *God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason*
* *Paradoxes of Education in a Republic*
* *America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By*
* *The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution*
* *The American Bible: Whose America Is This? How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation*

I’m especially interested in building a collection around the **Trivium — Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric — and the wider classical liberal-arts tradition**.

If you have any books along these lines sitting unused on a bookshelf, in storage, or that you’re thinking of getting rid of, please feel free to message me. **I don’t expect anyone to have the whole list — even one or two books would be greatly appreciated.**

Thank you very much!

books please - Logic, Grammar, Rhetoric & Liberal Art (Lower Bevendean BN2)