The Bookworm

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

Related Journals

Start Date(s)

  • 1887 (Hoornstra and Puravs)
  • 1890 (Tye)

End Date(s)

  • 1894 (Hoornstra and Puravs)

Editor(s)

City

  • London, England

Type of Content

  • Trade interests from the standpoint of personal experience gathered during the past thirty years (Waterloo, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 3)--can't confirm on p. 3
  • "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 8)

Notes

  • Tye gives 1890 as its start date (Tye 2)
  • "A fine, all-round periodical for collectors, bibliophiles, and librarians" (Ulrich and Kup 147, 159)
  • Publisher's address: 62 Paternoster Row, London (journal itself)

Subject Categories

Sources that Discuss this Journal

  • COPAC
  • Hoornstra and Puravs 7
  • NSTC
  • Sherbo passim
  • Stewart 1:376
  • Tye 2
  • Ulrich and Kup 147, 159

Works Cited

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
  • Stewart, James D., editor. British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. 4 vols. Butterworths, 1968.
  • Sherbo, Arthur. “‘The Bibliographer,’ ‘Book-Lore’, and ‘The Bookworm.’” Studies in Bibliography, vol. 40, 1987, pp. 207–19. JSTOR.
  • COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.
  • NSTC (Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue), in C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index, Chadwyck-Heaney, 2020. ProQuest.
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