Blackwood's Magazine - 14 Volumes June-July 1946, June-August 1947, November 1947, December 1947, February 1954, September 1956, November 1956, July 1957, August 1957, September-October 1957

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Verlag: Blackwood 1946 - 1957, London, 1946

Beschreibung

14 first edition volumes of Blackwood's Magazine, dating from the year 1946 to 1957. Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. It was founded by the publisher William Blackwood and was originally called the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine. The first number appeared in April 1817 under the editorship of Thomas Pringle and James Cleghorn. The journal was unsuccessful and Blackwood fired Pringle and Cleghorn and relaunched the journal as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine under his own editorship. The journal eventually adopted the shorter name and from the relaunch often referred to itself as Maga. The title page bore the image of George Buchanan, a 16th-century Scottish historian. Blackwood's was conceived as a rival to the Whig-supporting Edinburgh Review. Compared to the rather staid tone of The Quarterly Review, the other main Tory work, Maga was ferocious and combative. This is due primarily to the work of its principal writer John Wilson, who wrote under the pseudonym of Christopher North. Never trusted with the editorship, he nevertheless wrote much of the magazine along with the other major contributors John Gibson Lockhart and William Maginn. Their mixture of satire, reviews and criticism both barbed and insightful was extremely popular and the magazine quickly gained a large audience. For all its conservative credentials the magazine published the works of radicals of British romanticism such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Through Wilson the magazine was a keen supporter of William Wordsworth, parodied the Byronmania common in Europe and angered John Keats, Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt by referring to their works as the "Cockney School of Poetry". The controversial style of the magazine got it into trouble when, in 1821, John Scott, the editor of the London Magazine, fought a duel with Jonathan Henry Christie over libellous statements in the magazine. John Scott was shot and killed. William Blackwood (1776 ? 1834) was a Scottish publisher. These volumes contain the work of such authors as David Wilson Fletcher, R. M. Patterson, Hugh Allen, Tony Smythe, G. Hartley and many, many more. Publisher's advertisements to the front of some of the volumes. Contains a loose, yellow order form for a year's subscription to the magazine. Collated and Complete. In illustrated paper boards. Externally sound with slight rubbing, although there is some residue marking to September 1957 and some light pencil inscriptions to every edition. Tidemark to December 1947. Ink inscription to the rear board of July 1957. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages throughout. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SET14-E-4

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Blackwood's Magazine - 14 Volumes June-July ...

Verlag: Blackwood 1946 - 1957, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1946

Einband: Magazine

Illustrator: Various

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book