Leo Cadogan
@leocadogan.com
Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
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Valuable parcel appears lost on the European customs border - if there was no such border with the UK there would be less losing (harrumph). Had grumpier, more anti-Brexity things to say about it earlier in the day, though still very annoyed.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Valuable parcel appears lost on the European customs border - if there was no such border with the UK there would be less losing (harrumph). Had grumpier, more anti-Brexity things to say about it earlier in the day, though still very annoyed.
Definitely walking towards the finishing line of some admin chores, but next week should see me I hope trotting along again (with some interesting cataloguing).
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Definitely walking towards the finishing line of some admin chores, but next week should see me I hope trotting along again (with some interesting cataloguing).
Mad Victorian facade of the Holloway Road in north London. Seven different external window frame designs.
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Mad Victorian facade of the Holloway Road in north London. Seven different external window frame designs.
Part of my job is to read indexes of old books looking for interesting things. Here be genitalia worship, it seems.
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Part of my job is to read indexes of old books looking for interesting things. Here be genitalia worship, it seems.
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Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
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Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
Florence Welch Was Visited by Psychic Cats While Writing Everybody Scream
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
I love hand-made manuscript pamphlets, even when the contents are taken from printed books. Examining my purchases at the Chelsea book fair.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I love hand-made manuscript pamphlets, even when the contents are taken from printed books. Examining my purchases at the Chelsea book fair.
“The Tory Notion of Peace & Goodwill. The government’s record abroad 1895-1900”. “Wars & massacres are coloured red”. 1900 election poster, seen at Timothy Millett @ the LAPADA fair. I believe he has sold it.
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“The Tory Notion of Peace & Goodwill. The government’s record abroad 1895-1900”. “Wars & massacres are coloured red”. 1900 election poster, seen at Timothy Millett @ the LAPADA fair. I believe he has sold it.
Typographical decoration, Madrid, c.1732.
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Typographical decoration, Madrid, c.1732.
Hippocrates in a coat embroidered with plants. Valencia, 1742.
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Hippocrates in a coat embroidered with plants. Valencia, 1742.
Good to go at the good old Chelsea book fair.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good to go at the good old Chelsea book fair.
Time, money and education. leocadogan.com/Chelsea25
![Front page. "Leo Cadogan Rare Books" [Frollicking bookseller logo] "Time, money and education (and a few other things). For the Chelsea Book Fair, 2025".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35zv4purjggw74fpinltgwrf/bafkreida7aieqesqab75mmhps52alaqeg4kbchjukntzokdcpoul4omx6a@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Time, money and education. leocadogan.com/Chelsea25
Dining room tables are for measuring things.
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Dining room tables are for measuring things.
Contents of a parcel of Spanish books that has just arrived. There is simply no such thing as too much vellum.
October 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Contents of a parcel of Spanish books that has just arrived. There is simply no such thing as too much vellum.
I’ve photographed it before, but this finger still tickles me.
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’ve photographed it before, but this finger still tickles me.
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Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
Some French red goatskin from a princess’s library is coming to Chelsea …
October 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Some French red goatskin from a princess’s library is coming to Chelsea …
Correction, Anna Sophia of Hesse-Darmstadt (1638-1683), who was Princess-Abbess Anna Sophia II. (NOT Anna Maria).
Coins of Anna Maria II, the Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. Illustration in a broadside of Munich, 1679.
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Correction, Anna Sophia of Hesse-Darmstadt (1638-1683), who was Princess-Abbess Anna Sophia II. (NOT Anna Maria).
Coins of Anna Maria II, the Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. Illustration in a broadside of Munich, 1679.
October 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Coins of Anna Maria II, the Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. Illustration in a broadside of Munich, 1679.
Statutes of a house for Jewish Christian converts (Bologna 1662). The title has left an impression on the inside cover of the cartonnage wrapper.
October 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Statutes of a house for Jewish Christian converts (Bologna 1662). The title has left an impression on the inside cover of the cartonnage wrapper.
Almanac spines, Paris 1820s. The tool used on the middle and right seems to be the same (the one on the left is a variant design).
![Three spines, red, green and red goatskin, gilt spine with panels with designs made of panels featuring straighter then more curved lines and then back to straighter [etc.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35zv4purjggw74fpinltgwrf/bafkreicf3sokw5ptlw25eemkhgazcxqzvzdo45jyhjqyzntapyym35aj4e@jpeg)
October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Almanac spines, Paris 1820s. The tool used on the middle and right seems to be the same (the one on the left is a variant design).
Printer’s collation statement for a 66-leaf duodecimo (12mo.) “ABCDEF. All sheets are complete except for F, which is half a sheet”. 12 x 5 + 6.
![Colophon leaf. In Roman letter “Regestum. [New line] ABCDEF. [new line] Omnia sunt integra folia praeter F, quod est semifolium”. Below this a Jesuit woodcut device, then “ROMAE, [new line] [italics] Apud Aloysium Zannettum, [new line] MDCIII.” [Printed horizontal line divider] [roman letter] “SUPERIORUM PERMISSU”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35zv4purjggw74fpinltgwrf/bafkreib3vxugzfu2pbioxuhgtz7j2ywlp2prcrogso6puscrauueui2usi@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Printer’s collation statement for a 66-leaf duodecimo (12mo.) “ABCDEF. All sheets are complete except for F, which is half a sheet”. 12 x 5 + 6.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Tomorrow’s job will be cataloguing this brocade paper-covered beauty. It’s a late 18th-cent woman’s death inventory so content promises to be interesting too.
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Tomorrow’s job will be cataloguing this brocade paper-covered beauty. It’s a late 18th-cent woman’s death inventory so content promises to be interesting too.