Journal with plain pages, 14 x 20 cm. 

144 sides of ivory acid-free cartridge paper, 130 gsm. Suitable for drawing as well as writing. 

Hand sewn and bound with a rounded spine for flatter opening. 

The cover is hand-printed from an original linocut based on the Spring flowering Brooklime plant, hand carved in 2024 by Susie Hetherington for Starsmead Bookbinding. 

A5, 25 x 21 cm

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. 

(BROOKLIME 11)