Periodical Appleton's Booklovers Magazine (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
December 1906
Launched in Philadelphia in January 1903 by lending-library promoter
Seymour Eaton,
Booklover's Magazine was a twenty-five-cent monthly miscellany that combined short essays by celebrities such as
Amelia Barr,
Henry Cabot Lodge,
Theodore Dreiser,
Hall Caine,
Maxim Gorky, and
Robert Barr with excerpts from other periodicals and illustrations, often in colour. After absorbing
Book-Lover in 1904, it was bought by New York publishers
D. Appleton and Company, becoming
Appleton's Booklover's Magazine in July 1905 and
Appleton's Magazine in July 1906. During the editorship of Trumbull White (1906-1909),
Appleton's compared favourably with "quality" monthlies such as
Scribner's. The magazine folded in June 1909.
Source
Mott, Frank Luther.
A History of American Magazines, Volume V, 1905-1930, Volume 2. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1968. 27-33.