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    Volume 1: William Blackwood and his Sons, their Magazine and Friends
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    21 April 2011
    04 November 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511711114
    9781108021395
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511711114
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.68kg, 544 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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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 1 covers the early career of William Blackwood and the establishment of the firm, its commercial relationships, and the foundation of the Magazine.

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