This name came in Russian from English: scrapbook is "scrap" - "piece" and "book" - "book", that is, literally means a book consisting of "pieces" of life, memories, history.
How did scapbooking come about?
Despite the fact that scapbooking has gained popularity not so long ago, its history is long-standing: even in ancient Greece, there were "hypomnema" - notebooks in which people recorded the necessary information. In the XIV-XVI centuries, for the same purposes, "commonplace books" appeared in England. But the first mention of albums with clippings from newspapers is mentioned only in 1598: at that time aphorisms, poems and whole poems were collected, pasted into ordinary notebooks and supplemented with own comments. In 1686, there was even a book-memo of John Lock, where it was told how best to make out such records.
But a strong impetus for the development of skopbooking was published in 1775, the book "The Biographical History of England," James Granger. Its content did not arouse the public's interest, which can not be said about the design: the author went to a little trick and left several pages of the publication empty, giving the reader the opportunity to personalize the book. Intellectuals-British were delighted with this idea, so many writers began to produce such "tricky" books.