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Wonderella
pamphlets can have the oddest and most marvelous effects
on their readers. In anticipation of Halloween, “On
Gnoming” readers Karima Cammell and Duncan Brown
submitted photographs of themselves dressed as gnome hunters,
with their dear daughter Raphaella playing the part of the
hapless quarry.
Inevitably,
the photographs made their way to “On Gnoming”
author (and professional fairy hunter) Reginald Bakeley.
What follows is an album of the photographs and a transcript
of Bakeley’s discussion of them with Wonderella publisher
Clint Marsh.
Click
the gnome hunter icon to see the photo album and read the
commentary, or continue reading below to learn about other
collaborations between Reginald Bakeley and Wonderella Printed.
About
Reginald Bakeley
Best known for his long-standing editorship of British magazine
Phooka—the Journal of the Overland Mallet Club—Reginald
Bakeley embodies that publication’s three-fold mission
of espousing spirited croquet, sampling the best in malt
whiskys, and reporting on the unending battle between modern
man and the denizens of the fairy kingdom who would be our
undoing.
In
1998, Wonderella was fortunate enough to spend Phooka’s
107th year working with Bakeley and his associates.
The resulting collaboration produced four issues and coincided
with the inaugural year of the Berkeley chapter of the Overland
Mallet Club.
Following
issue No.428, Bakeley took the Phooka reins in his capable
hands, steering the woolly beast back to Wales, where he
continues to this day to publish Phooka for the British
members of the Overland Mallet Club.
Bakeley
occasionally collaborates with Wonderella on pamphlet projects.
The most famous of these are the Little
Wonder Series of “On Gnoming,” “Goblinproofing
One’s Chicken Coop,” and “Lewis Carroll’s
Croquet Companion.”
On
to the Album and Commentary
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