The Bookworm

Subtitle: “An Illustrated Treasury of Old-Time Literature”

Related Journals

  • Bibliographer
    • This journal was titled The Bibliographer from 1881 to 1884
  • Book-Lore
    • This journal was titled Book-Lore from 1884 to 1887

Start Date(s)

  • 1887 (journal itself)
  • 1890 (Tye)

End Date(s)

  • 1894 (Hoornstra and Puravs)

Editor(s)

Printer/Publisher(s)

City

  • London, England (journal itself)

Type of Content

  • "Trade interests from the standpoint of personal experience gathered during the past thirty years" (Waterloo Online)
  • "This magazine was intended for all book lovers. It describes special books printed throughout history, famous libraries, book clubs, biographies of people involved with books, and miscellaneous news from the current book world" (Hoornstra and Puravs p. 8)

Notes

  • This periodical should not be confused with another of the same name (but typically hyphenated: Book-Worm) but begun in 1866, edited by J. P Bergeau, published by Eugene Rascol, and printed by Strangeways and Walden
  • Some (Hoornstra and Puravs; Waterloo Online) claim that the first issue was published in December of 1887. A title page exists with this date listed. But all extant editions we have found begin in January of 1888. Perhaps title change occurred in late 1887, but the issue wasn’t published until 1888?
  • Tye gives 1890 as its start date, but extant editions demonstrate that this is incorrect (Tye p. 2)
  • "A fine, all-round periodical for collectors, bibliophiles, and librarians" (Ulrich and Kup pp. 147, 159)
  • Publisher's address (Elliot Stock): 62 Paternoster Row, London (journal itself); the publisher of the American version is George J. Coombes in New York (journal itself)

Subject Categories

Issues

Sources that Discuss this Journal

  • COPAC
  • Hoornstra and Puravs p. 7
  • NSTC
  • Sherbo passim
  • Stewart vol. 1, p. 376
  • Tye p. 2
  • Ulrich and Kup pp. 147, 159

Works Cited

  • COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
  • Hoornstra, Jean, and Grace Puravs, editors. A Guide to the Early British Periodicals Collection on Microfilm, with Title, Subject, Editor, and Reel Number Indexes. University Microfilms International, 1980.
  • NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
  • Sherbo, Arthur. “‘The Bibliographer,’ ‘Book-Lore’, and ‘The Bookworm.’” Studies in Bibliography, vol. 40, 1987, pp. 207–19. JSTOR.
  • Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
  • Tye, James Reginald. Periodicals of the Nineties: A Checklist of Literary Periodicals Published in the British Isles at Longer than Fortnightly Intervals, 1890-1899. Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1974.
  • Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
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