Slightly Foxed at Gladstone’s Library
Our friends at @FoxedQuarterly have sent us these beautiful past editions! Find them dotted around the Library pic.twitter.com/a5bNDcmil9
— Gladstone’s Library (@gladlib) February 8, 2016
‘ . . . it couldn’t be more bookish if it tried.’
‘For those bibliophiles who yearn for a whiff of an era when a chap wanting something bound in leather on the Charing Cross Road looked to Marks & Co., not Ann Summers, Slightly Foxed will come as manna from heaven . . . it couldn’t be more bookish if it tried.’ Guardian
‘Pocket-sized little chunks of perfection’
‘A memoir written in the late 1920s and recently republished in the beautiful Slightly Foxed Paperback series. The book tells of Bell’s move, at 20 years old, from bohemian Battersea to a small farm in Suffolk. Bell is a favourite of mine, and his nature writing is immediately transporting. It doesn’t hurt, either, that the Slightly Foxed Paperbacks, pocket-sized little chunks of perfection, are the most beautifully made paperbacks I’ve ever had the pleasure to own. They’re made by a traditional small press in Yorkshire to standards that make reading on a device seem like the most depressing possible compromise.’ On Adrian Bell’s Corduroy
‘A joy in itself . . .’
‘A joy in itself – and it also publishes attractive, limited-edition, cloth-bound pocket hardbacks that will appeal to traditionalists’
‘Sparky and independent’
‘A lovely production . . . it contains many riches’
Our readers write . . .
‘Absolutely beautifully produced.’
‘Like a breath of fresh air’
‘Brilliant . . . a great present for those who love books and those who live abroad’
‘A quarterly box of delights – always something unexpected to excite the taste buds of the bookish. I know it’s planned, but it feels fortuitous and that’s quite an art’
‘Packed with anecdotes, reminiscences and essays about books, writers and the trade. If you love books you’ll love Slightly Foxed’
‘Fondling its delightfully crisp, cream pages you can almost feel corduroy patches sprouting from your elbows’
‘A great present for someone who likes books’
‘Slightly Foxed is a handsome handful of thick creaminess, always with lovely covers, and would make a great present for someone who likes books, and for who you can never think of a remotely suitable present. The magazine is rather like that voice you always hope to hear behind you in old bookshops . . . Ah now that’s an interesting one’
‘Strike a blow for good reading’
‘Slightly Foxed offers a chance to discover about eighty books a year that most of us have never heard of but all of us will wonder about. Strike a blow for good reading everywhere and order a sample issue. It’s all about books, really good books . . . I couldn’t be happier to have found this magazine’
‘A wonderful publication’
‘. . . at once unpretentious and lively, edifying and fun’
‘A heartfelt celebration of writing that has stood the test of time’
‘Subscribers are so happy they exist that they occasionally drop in to the kitchen headquarters – sometimes they bring marmalade; at Christmas, they send cash so the staff can all go out for a drink. And once in a while, a contented reader will write to the dog’
Time Out
‘Packed with anecdotes, reminiscences and essays about books, writers and the trade. If you love books you’ll love Slightly Foxed.’
