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Annals of a Publishing House

Volume 2. William Blackwood and his Sons, their Magazine and Friends

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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

  • Date Published: November 2010
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108021401

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  • Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) is best known as the author of nearly one hundred novels, but also wrote short stories and biographies. Closely connected with Blackwoods of Edinburgh from 1851, shortly before her death she was commissioned to write a history of the publishing firm by director William Blackwood, grandson of the founder. From small beginnings, the firm had rapidly become the leading Scottish publishing house, dominating the literary world, particularly through Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and an impressive list of famous authors. These included Thomas de Quincey, Walter Scott, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Magazine introduced the convention of having novels issued in serial form before publication as a book, which became standard practice for authors such as Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot. Volume 2 continues to 1861 and the death of the second William Blackwood, and includes landmarks such as the opening of a London branch, and George Eliot's first novels.

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    • Date Published: November 2010
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108021401
    • length: 534 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 30 mm
    • weight: 0.67kg
    • contains: 3 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    12. Publications
    13. New contributors
    14. Domestic life
    15. Domestic and public life
    16. Illness and death
    17. The brothers
    18. More lights of 'Maga'
    19. The metropolitan branch
    20. The rank and file
    21. London and Edinburgh
    22. 37 Paternoster Row
    23. The new Blackwood band
    24. Major Blackwood
    Index.

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    Margaret Oliphant

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