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

Covers are the Persephone design, created by Cambridge Imprint for independent publisher Persephone Books, and this paper is described as having 'an early twentieth century Bloomsbury feel about it'.  (Olive and cool pink colourway.)

120 x 165 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.