| Annals of a Publishing House: Volume 2, William Blackwood and His Sons, Their Magazine and Friends Contributor(s): Oliphant, Margaret (Author) |
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ISBN: 051171131X ISBN-13: 9780511711312 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $72.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry - Business & Economics | Infrastructure |
| Dewey: 338.761 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Printing and Publishing Histo |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |