Leo Cadogan

Book published 4125 years from now.

Graffiti artists together for digital access to journals.

Taxi driver to Barajas airport playing some great Anglo-American punk.

Moving-out sales list. leocadogan.com/chelsea26

Highly recommend the ballet ‘Manon’ at the Royal Opera House.

Manually numbering items in a large list. Plenty of possibility for error.

Things I learned today in the process of checking spellings: the delicious Bahlsen Leibniz chocolate biscuits are named after the great mathematician G.W. Leibniz.

Flipping between the news and editing a big document of book descriptions, mustn’t confuse defamation and delamination.

Good to see the great A to Z still on sale (at my local Waterstones). The best antidote to London smartphone map addiction. A to Z founder Phyllis Pearsall (1906-1996) is a very interesting person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis...

Paper-folding and instruction-following skills to the fore! #vote

Oh my goodness, another triumph. #smalltriumphs

Love other people's address books (though the story that emerged from this one is sad). www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

Running a business in a show home is quite challenging. But if I learn how to make my jobs in progress invisible and then bring them out again when the visitors have gone with a flick of a wrist, I will feel very capable.

The rare book trade of Holloway (I’d like to say I’ll miss this shop but I have never been inside).

Collecting local mementoes #hotdog #perrosalchicha

Collecting local mementoes #hotdog #perrosalchicha

Skies be skying.

Having hidden everything in my room for the photographer (we are moving), I now have no idea where or under which tablecloth anything is. It is liberating and mildly frustrating at the same time.

🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 News: at the end of this year, we are moving to Madrid. My wife Dr. Marta Cacho Casal has been made manager (coordinadora) of prints and drawings at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (the fine arts academy). Cue much reorganizing at this end, but exciting times for all. 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 News: at the end of this year, we are moving to Madrid. My wife Dr. Marta Cacho Casal has been made manager (coordinadora) of prints and drawings at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (the fine arts academy). Cue much reorganizing at this end, but exciting times for all. 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Office looking particularly nice at the moment.

Two bays of rare books with some sense to them (tidying things prior to a visit from an estate agent’s photographer tomorrow).

Loose blue wire on a ceiling fixture. Trying to remember where to put it back. I think I could do this once.

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

Landing in SFO at 7 am.

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

Glimpse of downtown LA #amtrak

Late afternoon in New Mexico. #Amtrak

Very nice not to be flying to California.

US train stations can be magnificent.

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.

A fine ox. Rotterdam, early C19.

The preschool audience for Renaissance celestial tables.

Cataloguing a very nice Greek Catholic Marian liturgy this morning.

Squirrels 🐿️ in a factotum initial from early C17 Urbino.

The imprimatur has left an impression.

Woodcut title-page vignette, Modena 1688.