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Leo Cadogan

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Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB). To sign up for newsletters, visit leocadogan.com

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · Mar 17

Typographical chaos. Sondershausen, 1700.

A page of text in different types. Duodecimo.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1h

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 3d

The reverse sides (versos) of folded 17th-cent broadsides.

A fanned small pile of folded broadsides, showing verso sides.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 4d

A clear-eyed and modern-dressed Pythagoras, in a volume of student philosophy notes of Caen, 1700.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 6d

Experimenting on my laptop with the Flashes app (for viewing and posting images on Bluesky), here is a photo of an old and sold piece of stock (a hand-written Italian veterinary manual from the eighteenth century).

An opening of closely written manuscript in a codex, held open by me.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · Aug 2

How to become a printer's apprentice in 1743. A boy is led by Carmenta, a Roman goddess who created the alphabet, up steps of a temple where the goddess Typographia awaits. Each step represents a skill that must be mastered, such as reading, writing, foreign languages, declensions, conjugation. 1/2

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 7d

Well-researched article including opinion from our colleague in the book trade Pierre-Yves Guillemet.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

www.theguardian.com

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 11d

22 Portobello Road, London. c60 years before it became so (in 1927 apparently), George Orwell was living in some serious property.

Front door and first floor of a blue-stucco covered house, with hedge and ivy and blue plaque saying Orwell lived here.

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 12d

Thank you, am glad!

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 12d

Decoration on a broadside from Barcelona 1682.

Bottom LH corner of broadside featuring: woodcut border decoration featuring flowers and branches, a woodcut vase with flowers, some typographical decoration, and in letterpress the first words from the imprint: “En Barcelona:”.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 14d

Interesting!

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 14d

Annotated to-do list.

List of people to pay and email, all identified in a juvenile hand as “NOT IMPORTANT”. At bottom, in the juvenile hand, “VERY IMPORTANT” and “Take Carmen to fun places!”

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 16d

Just followed my child’s favourite crime writer @redbreastedbird.bsky.social so that I can keep up-to-date on news to relay. Seems a jolly feed too!

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 16d

Yarn-saving Sunday.

A tight ball of red yarn in my hand, with a large mess of yarn hanging below, with garden in background.

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 18d

Brilliant, thank you!

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 22d

Repurposed shoe box full of bibliographical goodies, ready for wrapping.

Brown cardboard shoe box on a yellow mat on a desk.

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 22d

c.1600 doodles on the front cover of a book.

Written on grey cartonnage: two cartoon profiles, one of person with hat, the other with fantastic chin, some writing, a chequered box.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 24d

Trying to bring a bit of Spain to north London. #aperitivo

Glass of white wine with bowls of green olives and crisps.

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 25d

Happy arrival. Pamphlet in cartonnage with presentation inscription (1730) on front.

Large pamphlet tilted down and away from camera, showing front cover in grey cartonnage (receding from camera), inscription (dated 1730 at end).

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 25d

I have to admit, I actually prefer the original (which I really do like).

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Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social · Apr 2

You write of this book being ‘rare’,
And price it to make me despair—
Yet right here I see,
In ESTC,
Some ninety-six copies to spare!

Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · Apr 2

There's a lot of superlative language in the bookselling world but I'm intrigued to know just what is meant by 'impossibly rare'...

a person 's finger is pointing to a book titled " hundertjahrgeschichte "

ALT: a person 's finger is pointing to a book titled " hundertjahrgeschichte "

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27d

Just sent to me by @sianwitherden.bsky.social who did some great work for me on this. So pleased to see this Jacobite roll so happily settled.

www.ilovelimerick.ie/rare-jacobit...

Rare Jacobite manuscript presented to the Limerick Museum

Rare Jacobite Manuscript Presented to the Limerick Museum. Dr Zara Power (Limerick Museum Assistant Curator), Dr Matthew Potter (Limerick Museum Curator), Kevin Fitzpatrick (Heavey Technology Limerick...

www.ilovelimerick.ie

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Celtibeŕ @celtiber.bsky.social · 27d

A manicule pointing to the standardization (?) of the proof of ‘limpieza (de sangre)’ – that was required to enter many institutions in the Spanish Empire.

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27d

Magic finger #manicule

C17 Spanish printed text. Pointy finger drawn in ink in margin with marginal lines proceeding from it which draw attention to all the text below.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27d

😂

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27d

I hope it doesn’t end anywhere.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27d

Magic finger #manicule

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