Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

A bibliography of 6200 entries of short fiction by women writers in English, defined to include both traditional forms such as the novella, short story, prose character and the sketch, and other forms such as moral tales, collections of legends and folklore, prose allegories and proverb stories.

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.