Annals of a Publishing House
3 Volume Set
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
- Date Published: November 2010
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108021425
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Annals of a Publishing House contains the early history of the influential Scottish publishing house, William Blackwood and Sons. 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 writers. These included Thomas de Quincey, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Magazine introduced the convention of having novels issued in serial form before publication as a book, which became standard practice for Victorian authors. Owing to the death in 1897 of Mrs Oliphant, the originally commissioned author and successful novelist, Volume 3 was written by Mary Porter, daughter of John Blackwood, sixth son of the founder, under whose control the firm greatly increased its influence and range of publications.
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- Date Published: November 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108021425
- length: 1537 pages
- dimensions: 324 x 250 x 68 mm
- weight: 2.3kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus.
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
Volume 1:
1. William Blackwood
2. The tales of my landlord
3. The magazine
4. The world turned upside down
5. John Gibson Lockhart
6. Christopher North
7. The Ettrick shepherd
8. William Maginn
9. Coleridge - De Quincey
10. John Galt - John Wilson Croker
11. Other contributors. Volume 2:
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. Volume 3:
1. Early life of John Blackwood
2. George Eliot's early novels
3. Edinburgh and London
4. A. W. Kinglake and The Invasion of the Crimea
5. Laurence Oliphant
6. The editorial sanctum
7. Strathtyrum
8. Charles Lever
9. 'The military staff of Blackwood'
10. The editor abroad
11. Mrs Oliphant and new recruits
12. George Eliot's later works
13. Last years
Index.
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