Andrew McCabe

In the 1970s BBC series "I Claudius" the walls wobbled if anyone even breathed near them. Wouldn't stand close. I'd be fearful of someone getting killed by falling golden oval office decor but probably shouldn't be worried as it's all gilded polystyrene foam anyways.

Bright red London bus interior with red moquette seats, view out window, trees and red brick houses typical London. Hand holding an elegant red and black leather doctors bag

On a London bus with my Asprey handbag and Seiko 9R15 spring drive in Pt950 on my wrist.

New Seiko 6L37, refined thin lightweight sports watch movement used in place of 8L35 for smaller watches but still shock resistent. The initial 6L37 watch 2023, SJE093, now sells at $6k. This 2024 Marinemaster SJE117 comes in several colourways, slate green is rarest & sold out at Seiko. So compact!

Almost all pre 1550 books and most pre 1600 in my library are northern Italy, Paris or Lyon. Entertainment not religious nor scientific - histories, hobbies, beautiful engravings, travelogues etc, almost all profusely illustrated.

Low countries, England, Germany and Spain only appear near 1600

"Fust claimed Gutenberg owed
him for misuse of loans involving paper, vellum, ink, an apparatus, and workers’ wages. Gutenberg countered that Fust’s funding was an investment toward mutual profit, and not subject to repayment with interest"

Standard contract dispute issue. What was the outcome?

Congratulations @jaeo.x Joseph and all Nigerian NYSC pass-outs now get to work!

(that sure looks like a police mug shot)

It happens but it's illegal and spies are thrown out once discovered. Fear is they set up masses of electronic equipment and a Chinese prison on UK territory. If it already existed you'd take countermeasures but as the embassy doesn't yet have planning permission there's an opportunity to stop it.

New Chinese Embassy, London. Central building in red is old Royal Mint at Tower Hill. UK gov is now wondering about the basement. Hypothesis is it's spying equipment focused on cables into the City

UK also wants a hard perimeter to prevent China operating an unmonitored secret police headquarters

Me eating Seville marmalade from a huge jar made by Single Variety Co.

Channeling #Paddington this morning

Julius Caesar page, his coin image atop, many red text areas

Constantine I page, noting Empire division at his death, 6 coin portraits and two coin roundels

Title page

Index header

Panvinio Onofrio & Jacob Strada, Fasti et triumphi Rom a Romulo rege, very early numismatic publication of Consular Fasti discovered in the Roman Forum 1546, this ed 1557 unusually printed in two colours - Red for missing sections, and Black. Very useful index

Cover: arsenic Green, will replace.

Catania is terrific and yet unlike Syracuse or Taormina is rarely a tourist destination by itself - more seen as a day trip hence no one sees it by night

The royal arms appear on this pattern shilling of Charles I that dates to 1635. It was produced via Nicholas Briot’s minting machinery so it is of much higher quality than the regular circulating coins that were struck by hand. This example is from the Hunterian Collection.

This is great

Aside from:

On the Art & Craft of Doing Science - Catania

Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods - Wilson

I can't speak highly enough of:

How to Write a Thesis - Umberto Eco

Which addresses how to bootstrap ANY research project, even a small one taking weeks or months

Folio editions of Iliad and Odyssey by Emily Wilson

I will order your new imprints of old books next week. Acclaimed translations by classical scholar Emily Wilson and vibrant new illustrations by artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, with only 500 copies printed. Expensive but so is life

very interested in your current project which is ... about translation?

Very well done. May you have an uplift in career prospects, income or happiness!

Lots of different individual cakes, three astronaut bears, and red and pink roses

Birthday! My twins Oscar and Tré, and my best friend Isaac, celebrating their triple day tomorrow 5th August. Cakes already arrived

LibraryThing summary page this my book

Title page for the first part - NB the colophon information - date, printer etc - is on the last page not title page

Cover, tooled calf, with locks

Colophon note date MDIII and ornate printer device

added my first book to LibraryThing: Flavio Biondo on ancient Roma and Italy, first published 1459, my ed Venice 1503

www.librarything.com/catalog.php?...

There's much better open database options for book collectors than for numismatists

‘Just ticking away in the background’: old Euston departures board lives on in millionaire’s Margate warehouse Board continues to show live updates in Jeremy Hosking’s storage space which will open to public next weekend

This is so English and I love it

That live departure board would be better off back in Euston: much clearer and more useful than the LCD screens. Maybe one day it will be back - and showing live train info - as we appreciate more our working engineering heritage

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Esq bar Old Kent Road Sunday evening

Great choice

A Jesuit wrote this 15 volume 3000 plates folio sized epic about ancient Greece and Rome in the 1740s. No computers no typewriters no photography no museum websites no AI. Lock yourself away in a library and get to work.

If you wonder what purpose my library is, this IS a purpose. A #nerdy hobby - reading up on artists and printers, lusting over woodcuts, paper and type, deciphering ink marginalia, making library cards

I will research: original numismatic thoughts & related art, but books are their own fulfillment

If a book is #numismatic and in Dekesel, I include a print of their cat. page. Otherwise & also I include any extra info on an index card placed in the pocket. I've print copies of a range of Short Title Catalogues, mostly BM/BL late 1800s per country. "Books on Art" 1870 V&A includes numismatics.

1537 Chronicum Abbatis Urspergensis Burchard of Ursperg 1177-1230 ed. Philip Melanchthon Kraft Muller Strasbourg Dekesel DI.L21 LIECHTENAW (Conrad Liechtenaw: Burch rd) £1368 Written 1229-30 Covers Ninus of Ninevah onwards. Edited after Burchard, s 1230 death by successor Conrad Lichtenau Unclear why D files under L

How I file my books:

Typewritten index cards paperclip to cover or end paper

1537

Chronicum Abbatis Urspergensis Burchard of Ursperg 1177-1230

ed. Melanchthon

Print: Müller Strasbourg

Dekesel DI.L21

(Conrad Liechtenaw revised post 1230)

Vellum manuscript cover

Danish gaff cutter The Ede Frandsen

St Ives

Cover of Woolf's The Voyage Out showing a passenger ship deck

fresco "Venus with Iapyx Tending the Wounded Aeneas," a Roman work from the 1st century AD found in the House of Sirico in Pompeii

The London Literary Society: extreme reading experiences

- Virgil's Aeneid on the Greek island of Agistri

- Proust, art and literature in Paris

- Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out in St Ives Cornwall

- six days at sea on a 19th c whaler with Melville's Moby Dick

www.litsalon.co.uk/classical-ph...

Lucullus, marble bust

Silver coin portraying Tigranes the Great

Plutarch: "the first messenger to advise of Lucullus' coming so displeased Tigranes that he had his head cut off; and no man dared to bring further information. So Tigranes sat with war blazing around him with no intelligence at all"

Looking forward to very frothy US labour stats in coming months

The Myth of the “Emerging” Black Artist: Ageism and Access in the Art World The Myth of the “Emerging” Black Artist: Ageism and Access in the Art World By Chenoa Baker  The art world has created three categories to describe artists: emerging, mid-career, or established. These...

The art world has created three categories to describe artists: emerging, mid-career, or established. These labels are often based on metrics like the number of solo exhibitions an artist has had, whether their work is included in major collections, and how long they’ve been active in the field.

US Government To Auction Works By Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso and Diane Arbus Purchased With Funds from 1MDB Scandal The artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso and Diane Arbus were surrendered by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and producer Christopher McFarland.

For ARTnews, I looked into the four artworks by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Diane Arbus now being auctioned online by the US government with connections to the 1MDB scandal. Three were gifted to Leonardo DiCaprio by Jho Low and one was forfeited by a producer of THE WOLF OF WALL STREET.

Season 2 my fave followed by 3, I loved the union & city hall politics. Season 5 least favourite tho it tied up loose ends. Season 4 most upsetting both due the assassinations and the kids' involved 😬 but all nothing without 1. Everyone has own rankings

Was in Baltimore last week. Time for rewatch

Hair-raising Underground Tube

My library

My home library in London is based on illustrated histories, travel guides, numismatic and economics texts, and ancient text translations from the ancient world before 1800. France and Italy before 1600, then Amsterdam / Antwerp before 1700, then England from 1700 are the main publication locations.