COMMONPLACE BOOK - VINTAGE LADYBIRD GARDEN FLOWERS (5)
Journal 11 X 15 cm
208 sides of plain ivory paper, 110 gsm. Suitable for fountain pen.
FLower illustrations by John Leigh Pemberton (1911-1997) from Ladybird Book of Garden Flowers, first published 1960.
Front: Lily, Meconopsis
Back: Achillea, Alstromeria, Anchusa, Helenium
Commonplace Books are a very purposeful way of using a journal, or giving one as a gift. They have been used since the Fifteenth Century, the idea being to record passages of text, poems, quotations, recipes, reading lists, drawings, sayings, family turns of phrase, calligraphy, aspirations - any words of perceived wisdom or personal significance - all making up a memoir of the author’s interests over a number of years. All sorts of famous people have kept Commonplace Books including John Milton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf. A brief note about the history and use of Commonplace Books is enclosed with the book.