Leo Cadogan
@leocadogan
Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB). Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff. To sign up for newsletters, please visit leocadogan.com
Straight off the boat. The Madonna del Mare (Our Lady of the Sea) yesterday evening after being in a boat procession along the local coastline of San Vincenzo, Tuscany. The attire (and shoe wear) of the first responders carrying the statue may reflect the journey they have just been on.
There were signs that we were approaching a C17 sanctuary of the originally Catalonian Virgin of Monserrat. Today on isola d’Elba.
1st-cent BCE mausoleum of noblewoman Cecilia Metella, subsequently reused in the C14 by the Caetani family to form part of a fortress. Via Appia Antica, Rome.
Photo taken today by my partner, of Sancho in the Parco degli Acquedotti in Rome.
A holy mess. Facsimile copy of a charter of Hippolytus, 8th-century bishop of Lodi. Brescia, 1728.
Sancho surveying the Milanese traffic. It’s quite chilled travelling with a nine-year-old (dog, that is).
Another one from earlier today. Sancho looking imperious in front of Kölner Dom / Cologne Cathedral. #boysseeeurope
Sancho Panza looking out of a train window in the Köln area. It is his ninth birthday today and I sense he may be reflecting on this.
Starting my annual adventure over land and sea with my trusty sidekick Sancho Panza. Next stop Harwich International.
Cc @andrask.bsky.social Suspect 2 sheets going through press at same time is the answer, thank you, here is another example from same book (impression of sig A2 recto on sig A8 recto!)
I don’t think I have seen this before. This sheet seems to have been printed un-inked and then printed inked.
Historic Jesuit library at Staatliche Bibliothek Passau! Just encountered via their website.
Finding some other things that have felt the burn on this hot day (excisions with iron gall ink to a book of sermons printed Barcelona, 1598).
Women printers. President of the George Banta Publishing Company 1935-1951 was Nellie Banta. She had been general manager 1904-1911. Source: Wikipedia. (This is a book I just took snaps of in the library for work).
Two books for showing around today at @ies-sas.bsky.social London Rare Books School.
Small group of books I have brought in today for teaching at @ies-sas.bsky.social London Rare Books School.
As a show-and-tell, today I took to @ies-sas.bsky.social London Rare Books School the contents of a little list I am working on.
New Cross Gate station at sunset last night. London City (financial district) buildings in background, including The Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe).
Things I am taking to day one of my course at @ies-sas.bsky.social London Rare Books School. Including LCRB catalogues to give away. I think I am taking a trolley (last year I carried in a tote which was good strength-training).