Alternate Subtitle(s)

• "A Literary and Bibliographical Review" (COPAC)

Start Date(s)

• 1866 (Bigmore and Wyman)

End Date(s)

• 1870 (Bigmore and Wyman)

Editor(s)

• Berjeau, Jean Philibert

Printer/Publisher(s)

• Eugène Rascol

City

• London, England

Type of Content

• Contains "Information relating to early printers and printers' marks" (Bigmore and Wyman 2:162)

Notes

• "Ended at the fifth volume in 1870 because of war (and the related destruction of the library at Strasbourg, with all its typographical, literary, and artistic treasures). The title is also used for a US journal and a later British journal" (Bigmore and Wyman 2:162) and ("Bibliography of Printing" 35)
• "A scholarly digest of bibliographical information. Significant notes on early printing and illustration" (Ulrich and Kup 147, 159)
• Title was spelled with a hyphen (Book-Worm) from 1866-68 (Ulrich and Kup 147, 159)
• Publisher's address: 4 Brydges St., Covent Garden, London (journal itself)

Subject Categories

• Bibliography
• Book History
• Book Trade & Bookselling
• Printing History

Issues

• Book-Worm 1.1 (January 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.2 (February 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.3 (March 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.4 (April 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.5 (May 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.6 (June 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.7 (July 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.8 (August 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.9 (September 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.10 (October 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.11 (November 1866)
• Book-Worm 1.12 (December 1866)
• Book-Worm 2.13 (January 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.14 (February 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.15 (March 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.16 (April 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.17 (May 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.18 (June 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.19 (July 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.20 (August 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.21 (September 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.22 (October 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.23 (November 1867)
• Book-Worm 2.24 (December 1867)

Sources that Discuss this Journal

• “The Bibliography” 7:35
• Bigmore and Wyman 2:162
• COPAC
• Ulrich and Kup 147, 159

Works Cited

• Bigmore, E. C., and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. 1880. Oak Knoll P and the British Library, 2001.
• Ulrich, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. Books and Printing: A Selected List of Periodicals, 1800-1942. W. E. Rudge, 1943.
• “The Bibliography of Printing.” The Printing Times and Lithographer, vol. 7, nos. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, Jan.-June 1881. HathiTrust.
• COPAC: Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues. Library Hub Discover, JISC.