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COMMONPLACE BOOK 120 X 165 - PAPER CHAIN (253)


PC253

COMMONPLACE BOOK 120 X 165 - PAPER CHAIN (253)


Journal with lined pages, 240 sides of 110 gsm smooth ivory paper. 

The spine is lettered in gold - apologies that the photograph does not show the spine lettering very well - it is a nice bright gold but it doesn't photograph easily. 

Covers are a paper 'parquet' created by laying strips of paper side by side, not overlapping, to create a new smooth sheet from multiple pieces. All the decorated papers are by Cambridge Imprint

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. 

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