Annals of a Publishing House 3 Volume Set
Annals of a Publishing House 3 Volume Set
Mary Blackwood Porter
£107.00
GBPAnnals 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.
Product details
November 2010Multiple copy pack
9781108021425
1537 pages
324 × 250 × 68 mm
2.3kg
7 b/w illus.
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.
