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‘The books are seemingly designed to look like the kinds of books you’d absentmindedly pick up in an junk or antique shop somewhere on a weekend outing, then decide not to buy. Yet here they are, looking gloriously out of place in the middle of the rampantly modern and individuated shelves of a major contemporary bookshop . . .

The books are printed by Smith Settle of Yorkshire, who also do Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly, and the finished product is indeed a delight. It sits happily in the hand and sits open well on the table’

The Independent

A World of Reading


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Wood Engraving: Sue Scullard

Olivia Wilson

Most Slightly Foxed readers, we suspect, have some irritating gaps on their bookshelves left by favourite titles lent and never returned. A personal bookplate is an elegant and practical way of solving the problem, and would make a very handsome present for a bookworm or provide an excellent incentive to do that sort-out of your own books that you’ve long had in mind. This fine fox by Sue Scullard is one of eight designs available.
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There was this cock-sparrow, my father . . .

Jennie Harrison Bunning

In V. S. Pritchett’s wonderful memoir of his childhood and youth, A Cab at the Door, ‘VSP’, as his friends called him, grew up in the shadow of a father whom his own son, our regular contributor Oliver, describes as very like Dickens’s Mr Micawber – expansive, extravagant, insanely optimistic, always certain that ‘something would turn up’. Usually it didn’t – hence the ‘cab at the door’, waiting to bear the family quietly away from another clutch of creditors . . .