Journal with plain pages, 208 sides of 110 gsm smooth ivory paper. 

The cover design is by Cambridge Imprint and is a paper created for their Christmas Paper Chain in 2024. There are very fine perforations between the strips, but when the book is bound and glued, these are virtually imperceptible, and the paper returns to its form as a smooth sheet. 

150 x 150 mm 

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.