Publication Identification

Field	Information
Country	United States
Publisher	Palmetto Publishing Co. (some bibliographic records also associate Arco Publishing, New York, with the 1976 edition)
Publisher address	St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.  Street address: Pending research update
Magazine title	Breeding Snakes in Captivity (book in Pet Reference Series)
Publication status	Book; not an ongoing periodical
Publication run	1976 edition; later 1989 Nimrod Press Ltd. edition or reissue documented
Editor	Pending research update
Printer	Pending research update
ISSN	Not applicable: book (ISBN 0-915096-01-3)
Language	English
Publication type	Paperback book, Pet Reference Series No. 3
Publication frequency	Not applicable: book

I published this here. Technically it is a book but this paperback is part of a Pet Reference Series. It reads like a magazine focused on a single subject. It didn’t seem right to put it with the books.

Preservation Significance

Breeding Snakes in Captivity has preservation significance as an early practical record of captive snake breeding and husbandry from a period when successful reproduction of many snake species in private and zoological collections was still developing into a more established body of knowledge.  Published in 1976, the book is associated with Robert “Bob” Riches, who has been described by another herpetoculturist as one of the early British pioneers of captive snake breeding and whose work influenced later keepers.  Preserving this physical edition retains not only the husbandry information available to snake keepers of the period, but also evidence of how captive breeding knowledge was being organized and shared before modern reptile publications, online care resources, and today’s extensive herpetocultural information networks.  The differing publisher records associated with the 1976 edition and the existence of a later 1989 reissue also make the physical copy useful bibliographic evidence for documenting the publication history accurately.