The earliest known UK publication for the consumer herpetologist.

Publication Identification

Field	Information
Country	United Kingdom
Publisher	Michael Connolley
Publisher address	159 Stanley Hill, Amersham, Bucks HP7 9EY
Magazine title	Snake Keeper
Publication status	Historical publication; final publication status: Pending research update
Publication run	Documented from January 1987 through at least 1989; final issue: Pending research update
Editor	Michael Connolley
Printer	Pyramid Press, Bristol, England
ISSN	Pending research update
Language	English
Publication type	Specialist snake keeping, husbandry, breeding and herpetology magazine
Publication frequency	Monthly; 12 issues per year

Preservation Significance

I was not able to find much. I don’t want to say not much is known but I will say, not much is publicly available.

Snake Keeper has preservation significance as a scarce British specialist magazine devoted to snake keeping, captive husbandry, breeding and herpetology.  The physical issues preserve primary source evidence for a publication about which relatively little information survives online, including publisher and printer information, subscription details, issue numbering, cover prices, article contents and artwork credits.  The surviving numbering also helps reconstruct the publication sequence, while independent bibliographic references show that the magazine continued beyond the 1987 and 1988 issues represented in the collection and into at least 1989.  Preserving these copies therefore retains both specialist husbandry material and bibliographic evidence that may otherwise be difficult to reconstruct.