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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 19/05/2026

And the views from the newly opened terrace of the Procuratie Vecchie - another great renovation by David Chipperfield

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 19/05/2026

Not all changes bad. The old cinema repurposed as such a glamorous supermarket

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 19/05/2026

Here with added Istrian stone on the Ca d’Oro façade

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 19/05/2026

Some things don’t change. The wonderful colour of Venice.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 19/05/2026

As is the Guggenheim, from the secret little fondamenta on Walk 1. Still the perfect guidebook. After 60 years!

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 19/05/2026

Editor hard at work revising Venice for Pleasure (Rialto Bridge still there) Current edition: pallasathene.co.uk/shop/venice-...

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 03/07/2025

‘Strollers in the Palais Royal’, a charming portrayal of the most elegant den of iniquity & riches in C18th Paris & one of the many captivating scenes in ‘Neighbours & Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris & London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier. 'An absolute treasure' - Simon Jenkins

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 01/07/2025

Looking for the perfect novel for a summer’s day? 🌞🌷🌿📖 Eva Figes’s shimmering ‘Light’ gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of impressionist painter Claude Monet, at work and at home. 1/

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 26/06/2025

Trades and cries of Paris, 1771 hatter, shoe mender, newsvendor, seller of pots & pans, gherkin-seller, fishmonger Read about the characters of Paris + London in the ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’, by Louis Sebastien Mercier. Available 1st July

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 25/06/2025

A crafty-looking Frenchman teases a thick-set Englishman about the war in America Read about the contrasts between French & English in the captivating, plentifully illustrated ‘Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London’ Available 1 July /1

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 18/06/2025

A. C. Benson moved in the most varied circles. Can you name the people in the reel? A 350,000-word selection from Benson’s controversial diaries is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark the centenary of his death. More more info see Linktree in bio.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 16/06/2025

A. C. Benson died 100 years ago today. Born in 1862, he was a novelist, poet, educationalist and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. A 350,000-word selection from the controversial diaries of this fascinating figure is being published as ‘The Benson Diary’ to mark this centenary. /1

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 11/06/2025

‘NOTLondon: Focus on the Forgotten’ is now on sale at the Onion Café, Victoria, a green community hub. Before the café and garden were developed here, Anthony Dawton took photographs, for 'NOTLondon', of homeless people who gathered in the space. You can also find the book on our website.

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 10/06/2025

‘Land of Dopes and Tories’! An excellent advance review of the forthcoming The Benson Diary in The Literary Review. “This distillation reveals that Benson’s diary is one of the best of the kind… On a par with Walter Scott and Virginia Woolf.”

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 03/06/2025

The book accompanies an exhibition at @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social, curated by Ian Warrell, which runs from 23/5 to 14/9, and will be available there, in bookshops, and on our website. See link in bio. 3/

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 03/06/2025

They were photographed specially for the book at such a high resolution that we have been able to make full page and double page spreads of blown-up details that show every tiny nuance of colour and brush stroke. 2/

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 03/06/2025

‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries’ is now available from all good bookshops. It reproduces some 60 superb paintings and sketches by J. M. W. Turner and Cotman, as well as Girtin, De Wint, Cox and others, all from a private collection and very rarely seen. 1/

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 14/05/2025

Pope Leo XIV has named himself after the trailblazing Leo XIII, the first pope to address social equality and social justice. These video extracts show Leo XIII embracing modernity as the first pope to be filmed, and so these are also the first papal blessings given via film! 1/

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 12/05/2025

Day 3 at the printers for ‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and His Contemporaries’ (see link) The pages are sewn into sections of 16 before these are sewn into a whole book block. After the covers are glued to the block the jackets are folded around by hand. pallasathene.co.uk/shop/impress...

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 08/05/2025

An elegant but scurrilous depiction of cardinals brawling at the conclave of 1644, published in Protestant Amsterdam

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 08/05/2025

Day 2 at the printers for ‘Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and His Contemporaries’ The pages are dried after printing, and cut, folded and gathered. You can also see the foiling for the cover. Which machine or process is the most satisfying? bsky.app/profile/holb...

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 07/05/2025

The word 'conclave' comes from Latin for ‘with key’ as cardinals used to be locked in the palace until they reached a majority in their voting for the new pope. They also had their rations reduced during this time! Read more in Loyd Grossman’s ‘Elephant in Rome’ pallasathene.co.uk/shop/an-elep...

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 30/04/2025

This is crucial when you're trying to approximate the subtlety of a Turner seascape (or the spectacular saturation of Cotman's cobalt blues). The green box is for measuring densities along the colour band. /6

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 30/04/2025

There each sheet is carefully inspected to check colours. If they’re not right, the density of one or more of the inks is increased or reduced along narrow bands, allowing a huge amount of control. /5

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 30/04/2025

The printing press is actually 4 presses, each using 1 colour of ink: yellow, red, blue, black. Each is applied separately via aluminium plates that transfer the ink to a roller which then transfers it to the sheet of paper. (In the video the blue plate is being checked.) /2

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 30/04/2025

At the printers! Technical explanations in thread... ‘Impressions in Watercolour’ reproduces superb paintings and sketches by William Turner and others. See the exhibition from 23/5 to 14/9 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social pallasathene.co.uk/shop/impress... /2

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 05/03/2025

One of Friedrich's compelling sepia landscapes, so admired by Goethe Rock Arch in the Uttewalder Grund, Elbe Valley - c. 1801. #landscape #Goethe #Friedrich #Romanticism

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Pallas Athene Books @pallasathene.co.uk · 26/02/2025

Just arrived - first new Lives of the Artists for a while. Top authors! and never before in English that we can see See it on Issuu here: issuu.com/pallasathene...

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