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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27/09/2026

Michelada at Los Frijoles restaurant on Aviation Boulevard. Food on its way. Wonderful start to a visit in Los Angeles.

Large pink beer drink with spiced rim and slice of lime. On a table. Nachos in background.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27/09/2026

Late afternoon in New Mexico. #Amtrak

Scrubby desert ground with a rocky hill in background. Clear sky.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 25/09/2026

Very nice not to be flying to California.

Lounge car. Glass windows and skylights.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 25/09/2026

US train stations can be magnificent.

Large waiting room. Curved glass roof. Columns.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 22/09/2026

Here at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social to read a book I need by a highly celebrated American intellectual historian of the Renaissance, and obviously, who is sitting at the back of the reading room but … I won’t disturb them.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 21/09/2026

A fine ox. Rotterdam, early C19.

Woodcut of a garlanded ox with baubles at end of horns. Touched with hand colour.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 20/09/2026

The preschool audience for Renaissance celestial tables.

JISC Library Hub discover entry for digitised copies of Johannes Bianchinus, ‘Tabulae celestium motuum’ (Venice, 1495). “Audience” is given in the cataloguing as “preschool”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 19/09/2026

Cataloguing a very nice Greek Catholic Marian liturgy this morning.

Title-page and facing inside front cover. Title in red and black. ‘Akolouthia tes makarias parthenou Marias’. Patavii, ex typographia seminarii, 1745. Facing board is covered with marbled paper and has leather book label of G.J. Arvanitidis.

Front cover. Red goatskin and ornate gilt.

Opening. LHS: woodcut of Virgin Mary with typographical decoration in red and black above and below. RHS: Greek text (red and black).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 18/09/2026

Our child is getting STRAWBERRY SANDWICHES for birthday tea. Can’t wait to try them.

Plate with hearts on. With four white bread sandwiches placed symmetrically, crusts trimmed off. With a “Happy Birthday” cake topper at centre and a candle sticking out of the middle of that. The sandwiches seem to be filled with cream cheese and sliced strawberry.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 18/09/2026

Dick Whittington, C14/15 merchant and Mayor of London. On his apocryphal journey into the city he came down what is now the A1 (the Holloway Road and many many other things). He passed metres from our house. Our local hospital is the Whittington.

Hand-coloured panel in an early C19 print showing Whittington passing a spire. With text “Aankomst van Whittington te London”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 17/09/2026

Squirrels 🐿️ in a factotum initial from early C17 Urbino.

The printed letter A set within ornate woodcut border including foliage, two squirrels and a crowned bird.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 17/09/2026

The imprimatur has left an impression.

Last page of a printed booklet with facing stiff card cover. The page is an Imprimatur page with the word "Imprimatur" appearing twice and the names of clerics. Some of this text (including the word 'Imprimatur') has offset onto the inside cover.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 16/09/2026

Woodcut title-page vignette, Modena 1688.

Quite a rough woodcut, winged cherub above a flower and scrolls with some down pointing foliage below.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 16/09/2026

Want to celebrate your 18th birthday in princely C17 style? Have an oratorio performed for you! Here’s a libretto for a celebration of the birthday of Francesco II of Modena (1660-1694).

Title-page to ‘Il trionfo della fede nel glorioso martirio di S. Azzo Estense’ (Modena, Demetrio Degni, 1678).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 14/09/2026

A list that I put out today. Readable at: leocadogan.com/hispanicaseptember26

Title-page to a catalogue. Vignette of a page of emblem book (woodcut emblem titled “America” with letterpress below). Below this, text LEO CADOGAN RARE BOOKS “END OF SUMMER 2026”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 13/09/2026

Working late to the lovely tones of a local karaoke night.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 12/09/2026

Peekaboo what’s inside? Trying out a lightbox for photographs for a list.

View of a bit of a catafalque through a round hole.

Large C18 catafalque print, turned up at top edge.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 12/09/2026

Boredom in rare bookshops?

Young writing in a small writing book. "Dear diary Being in a rare book bookshop is a bit boring thats why im riting on you so I sort it would make me entritaind". Drawing of girl with book, table, pen.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 11/09/2026

On the train to York (book fair) for the next two hours. But why pass up the opportunity for a spot of book-bothering?

An 18th-century leather-bound book on a bed of bubble-wrap on a besleeved computer on a train table. Beaker for
tea to right.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 09/09/2026

Describing a leather binding and having a case of the sheep-calf-goat. Sometimes easier to tell apart in real life than from their tanned hides.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 07/09/2026

Honoured and a bit nervous to have my first ever book review in ‘The Book Collector’. Too nervous to read it again (but will read everyone else’s articles).

Review of ‘The Third Book of Booksellers’ by Sheila Markham. First one and a half pages.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 07/09/2026

A triumph of book-keeping is locating an invoice that was posted to you rather than having to ask the other person to email it in pdf for the records.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 06/09/2026

Printed manicules and asterisks in title-page decoration. Mexico City, 1765. There seem to be two different manicules here, one normally for pointing from the left-hand margin, the other from the right.

8 printed manicules pointing outwards, with a pattern of printed asterisks at centre (coincidentally forming an 8).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 05/09/2026

“And this is where mummy met daddy”. Family trip to Bloomsbury.

Front of a windowed brick mid-century building with sign ‘The Warburg Institute’. Backs of a young woman and a slightly older woman.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 05/09/2026

Word On The Water. Floating bookshop on the Regents Canal by Kings Cross. Very nicely done.

Book cases outside the boat with browsers. DJ on the roof.

Inside the boat. Shelves, a sofa, backs of browsers.

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Reverenda Hendelie 💐💀 @hendelie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A partir de ahora voy a poner lo de "erratas no son muchas para lo que va tan deprisa" cada vez que me hagan un encargo de 200 pags. para hacer en dos días

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 01/09/2026

Typos (not many considering how fast we’re working). Zaragoza, 1663.

Paragraph of errata headed “Erratas. No son muchas, para lo que và tan de prisa”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 01/09/2026

Do you think this will get his attention?

Large blank space with printed in large caps “SEÑOR”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 31/08/2026

Convinced from the maths MS I have that I'd stand no chance in a complicated international transaction with an early modern merchant who had studied well, their mental computation & grip on currencies would be incredible. If there was drink at the meeting, I'm sure they'd hold that well too.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 30/08/2026

Bk signed in 8s, suggests made of sheets folded in 8. But it's square like a quarto (sheets folded in 4). Reveals itself in a misbind where 4 consec leaves (G3-6), are bound btwn 2 lots of 2 from wrong gathering (H1-2, H7-8). So a folded sheet of 4 is placed inside another to get the 8. #collation

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 26/08/2026

Quite a spiky tail-piece. Lleida, 1641.

Woodcut. Almost a lozenge of very spiny plant matter.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 26/08/2026

Sammelband (pl. sammelbände): volume composed of separate works bound together. Complicated to catalogue and present. Can be fascinating. Presently I have three uncatalogued sammelbände on my desk. I have ... mixed feelings.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 24/08/2026

#herpalace - Hardwick Hall, with initials on roof ‘ES’ = Elizabeth [Countess of] Shrewsbury (aka Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608)).

Two lines of hedges with in background a tall Elizabethan building with stone initials in tracery at tops spelling out ES.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 22/08/2026

A book in Catalan. Barcelona, 1641.

Diagonal photo of a page mostly in Catalan language (some Latin).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 21/08/2026

Stitching together of school notes with alum-tawed skin. Spain, c1800.

Opening in a manuscript showing part of pages from three different gatherings of school notes. The gathering in the middle has a shorter bottom margin allowing us to see a bit if the first page of the gathering below. Stitching in two places at gutter (inner margin).

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 20/08/2026

True crime account of an awful story from Australia. So grippingly described that I resisted googling until I’d finished. Very glad to discover the interesting author.

Front cover of Helen Garner, ‘The House of Grief’. Back end of a car sinking into water.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 19/08/2026

Just about holding onto my marbles.

Five pamphlets in marbled wrappers, splayed out and held in one hand.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 18/08/2026

Great typo. A colleague, publishing a catalogue on a well-known rare books listserv, advertises “interesting non-friction items”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 18/08/2026

A Greek Catholic liturgical book, a mathematics manuscript and a sammelband of learned works, printed c1500 and bound in pigskin. All from a parcel that I have just unpacked.

Pile of three books, lying flat with spines facing us. On top, a small-format book in red goatskin gilt. In the middle, a book in rumpled parchment. On the bottom, the spine of a book bound on pigskin.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 16/08/2026

Detail of early 19th-century Spanish decorated endpaper.

What looks like overlaid map outlines or mazes in red and green, also red and green spots.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 13/08/2026

Andrea says yes. Lord Chamberlain to Duke of Modena assents to publication of a play. Modena, 1789. #censorship

Pasted in slip “Si stampi Marchese Andrea Cortese”. Below printed text “Fide[!] del Dramma”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 13/08/2026

Here’s some #Odyssey -adjacent book marketing. ‘The Sign of Pallas’, in late C18 Cesena, i.e. Pallas Athene, a business established by printer-publisher Gregorio Biasini.

Woodcut printer’s vignette of Athena with spear, shield and armour, an owl on her helmet, inscription in Greek letters, MELETE TO PAN.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 12/08/2026

Very much enjoying the pin-hole thing.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For those of you who won't be lucky enough to see this once in a generation experience tonight, here instead, is a total eclipse of my noodles.

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