Re: VMs: Re: Sessa

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 13:07 19/01/2005 -0800, Matt Welnicki wrote:
> I have been doing some research on the printers of some
> early maps and editions of Sacro Bosco.  The family
> name is Sessa, and they have an interesting
> device/crest - the cat and mouse.  Has this been
> discussed at all?

Ummm... almost to death by Jean-Yves & me - Google the (recent) archives 
for Sessa. :-)

Basically, WMV sold a load of revolutionary books for a while, hooked up 
with C.A.Edgell M.A., jointly put out a catalogue (with the "Sessa" 
telegraphic address, though it didn't seem to appear in the telegraphic 
dictionaries I consulted), split up, carried on putting out catalogues on 
his own, later appropriating an early version of the Sessa motif (but with 
his own initials added).

AFAIK, what Edgell brought in is presently unknown - perhaps money, perhaps 
contacts, perhaps mss, perhaps knowledge, or indeed perhaps all of them. 
Perhaps we'll find out one day...

> See
> http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/sessa1534bx.htm

dissimilium infida societas - forgive my schoolboy Latin, but should this 
translate to something like "you are looking at [behold?] something 
different, o faithless person"?

While I could make that sound much more streetwise... perhaps I'd better 
not. :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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