Thank you! I am so glad you liked it. It goes without saying but do of course please let me know if you would like to discuss them, I am at your disposal (leo[AT]leocadogan[DOT]com or BlueSky DM).
This is going to be a fun event. I’ll be talking about fictional book trade crime as well as theft, fraud, and conspiracy against and by London’s rare book sellers. 👇 @thelondonarchives.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social
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Leonard Barden!
Beginning of the first part of this article (on the library). Photo of Schmid standing arms crossed looking down at a chess set on a table. Spassky sits perpendicular to him facing the table on left of picture. A chair on right is empty.
Second and final part of this section of the article.
Lothar Barden. '"Match of the century" referee Lothar Schmid's library up for auction'. Today's Financial Times. On the library of the publisher and referee at the 1972 Fischer vs Spassky match, for sale at Sotheby's on 17 April.
Neither sadly (though have respectable private reasons for not doing so). But will be around on the weekend.
View through window of blossoming cherry tree in garden, also yellow handrail, parasol (closed), buildings behind. Some glare in window from light behind photographer. Grey dusk.
Wonderful to have cherry blossom again.
Oxfordshire (Northants/Oxon border).
Dachshund on lead in front of a large colourful canvas (head of ape abstracted into blocks of colour).
Sancho at the Far Far Gallery, Cropredy, Northants. The picture is by Kes Richardson (Ceremonious Ape, 2020).
For years my school run train took me past graffiti saying RAMISM. I wanted the train to stop so I could take a photo and send it in a facetious Bluesky post about contemporary popularity of Aristotelian schematic diagrams. Unfortunately someone has recently changed the RAMISM to BAMISM.
Bin shed with wooden latticed front, in front yard of Victorian terraced house (bay windows of neighbours behind). The shed has a wooden plant trough built in on top. In this there is general vegetation, and flowers including tulip, daffodils, bluebells.
Blooming bin shed.
Detail of untrimmed pages with very uneven appearance
Stil life of untrimmed pages with proof corrections of the Polyglot bible
#rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 📚📜💙
Wooden door painted white, with printed sign (with logo) at top “indiedog”. Around and below this, labelled Polaroids of dogs. Sancho’s is directly below the sign. I have circled it in red.
Sancho on the door of dogs at Indiebeer, 322 Holloway Road, north London.
That’s brilliant! Do you think it is the Dog Star?
Angus is/was president, International League of Antiquarian Booksellers & Antiquarian Booksellers' Association & bookseller since teens. Joan has dealt with extraordinary archives, and Ariane with extraordinary early manuscripts in France. Students visit @quaritch1847.bsky.social & Cecil Court!
Angus is/was president, International League of Antiquarian Booksellers & Antiquarian Booksellers' Association & bookseller since teens. Joan has dealt with extraordinary archives, and Ariane with extraordinary early manuscripts in France. Students visit @quaritch1847.bsky.social & Cecil Court!
Leocadogan.com/cockerels26 (active link).
Title-page, “cockerels and geese, Leo Cadogan Rare Books”, featuring two cockerels, a woodcut of a cockerel’s egg (?!) and a red brocade front cover.
Just finished, shortly going out to customers, Cockerels And Geese! HTTPS://www.leocadogan.com/cockerels26
Oh golly, just been sent a photo of a final note that Marie Antoinette wrote in her prayer book before her execution. 😢
Intaglio print of a woman in an absolutely vast and extraordinary hair-do, entitled “The Extravaganza”.
Fresh from finishing Bridgerton, am being sent by my partner photos from the Marie Antoinette show at the V&A. Keep up the hair!
Intaglio print, two backpackers in a wood, each reciting scriptUral verse, a Bible on a stand, from which comes further scripture, a city in distance.
A couple of pilgrims in a frontispiece to a vademecum printed in Legnica (Poland), 1755.
Loom, table in front with photos of A.F. with dog.
Anna Freud (1895-1982), pioneer in paediatric psychoanalysis, loom-weaver. Freud Museum, London.
Sanremo.
A white-haired maestro in tuxedo arrives on a white horse before a smartly dressed man and woman.
San Remo music festival. The legendary singer Andrea Bocelli, who is blind, has just arrived on a white horse.
Printed page with woodcut decorative border, single-line printed inner border, woodcut skull and bones with vegetation, letter press, ms annotation.
Lots of outgrowth on this page (annotations and vegetation around the skull). From an art of dying pr. ?Lüneburg 1631.
Post from El Pais about restoration of Sistine ceiling. Photo has been labelled and hidden as adult content.
Please protect us from a photo of the Sistine ceiling! 😀
Cynic in me says "must be a set text" but of course even that and mass Latin teaching in schools is amazing.
A final deadline for the week, not being helped by the fascinating Gorton and Denton results, and the fact of it being Friday afternoon.
It's been pointed out to me that there was of course a mount here or similar covering the margin and this is just paper discolouration. 💆♂️
Key words added in a box in a website back-end: “esoterica”, “cockerels”, “intersex”, “alchemy”.
Key words for an item I am uploading for the virtual fair Firsts Online, which starts in a little over two hours.
