Book-Lore
Subtitle: "A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature"
Related Journals
- Bibliographer
- Book-Lore rose "from the ashes" of The Bibliographer, according to editor Henry B. Wheatley, which began in December of 1881 but was discontinued after 3 years (in November 1884)
- Bookworm (1887)
- Book-lore became The Bookworm [sometimes spelled Book-worm, but not to be confused with the journal of that same name begun in 1866 and edited by Berjeau] in December 1887, which ran until November of 1894
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Editor(s)
Printer/Publisher(s)
City
- London, England (journal itself)
Type of Content
- "Book-Lore was intended for anyone interested in books, their production, and the people who contributed to them whether they were authors, artists, printers, or booksellers. Articles, correspondence and reviews were regular features of the magazine. A 'Bibliophile's Kalendar' reported on events, publications, sales, re-printings, and other news of interest to its readers" (Hoornstra and Puravs p. 8)
Notes
- "An 'Index to Bibliographer and Book-lore' compiled by Aksel G. S. Josephson, was published in The Bulletin of Bibliography, v. 3, 1904 and also issued separately as Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets, no. 12" (Hoornstra and Puravs p. 7)
- "The earlier of the two journals here indexed, The Bibliographer, was edited by Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, with the object to offer, ‘firstly, the production of fresh information in a convenient and easily accessible form; secondly, the giving an account of what is passing in the bibliographical world; and thirdly, the formation of a medium of communication between those interested in old books.’ After three years it was discontinued, but as the editor states in his preface to the last volume, ‘it can scarcely be said to die, for from its ashes will rise a magazine more popular in its objects and scope’; this magazine was Booklore, which in its turn was discontinued after three years. The publisher of the two magazines, Mr. Elliot Stock, published from 1888 to 1894, inclusive, another journal of the same kind, called The Bookworm, An Illustrated Treasury of Old-Time Literature” (Josephson p. 1)
- "We hope to show that bibliography may become popular without losing in value or accuracy. We propose to help the collector of Dickens' editions as well as the hunter after Caxton's. Nothing that concerns books will be outside our range of sympathy. We shall deal with the methods of their production in ancient and modern times, the substances on which man has written, the instruments by which he has recorded his thoughts, and the manner in which art has added its beauty to literature. The blunders of scribes and printers, the fortunes and misfortunes of books and authors; the heroism, the folly, the fanaticism and the eccentricity embalmed in books will also have a place. Libraries, public and private, ancient and modern, will be noted. Episodes in the history of bookselling will be chronicled. Biographical particulars will be given of those less known worthies who have hitherto almost escaped attention" ("Book Lore," vol. 1, no. 1, Dec. 1884, p. 1)
- Publisher's address: 62 Paternoster Row, London (journal itself)
Subject Categories
Issues
Sources that Discuss this Journal
- COPAC
- Hoornstra and Puravs p. 7
- Josephson p. 1
- NSTC
- Sherbo pp. 207, 209-10
- Stewart vol. 1, p. 374
- Tye p. 2
- Ulrich and Kup p. 147
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.
- Josephson, Aksel G. S. Index to Bibliographer and Book-Lore. Boston Book Co., 1904. HathiTrust.
- 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.
