Hardback notebook, bound in genuine British cloth with elastic closure, ribbon marker, eight perforated end leaves and
expandable inner note holder. Left page blank; right page ruled.
Contains a removable booklet about the history of clan tartans, and a bookmark that gives information on the Auld Lang Syne Grey tartan.
Commonplace notebooks date back to the Scottish Enlightenment. Many thinkers and writers used a commonplace notebook for writing down ideas and knowledge including Adam Smith, Robert Burns, David Hume, and later, writers such as Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Virginia Woolf. |
