A rare antique edition of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, September 1881 edition.
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.
By the 1840s, aside from essays it also printed a good deal of horror fiction and this was an important influence on later Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, and Edgar Allan Poe. Poe even satirised the magazine's obsessions in "Loss of Breath: A Tale A La Blackwood," and "How to Write a Blackwood Article" in 1838.
A very collectible piece of Scottish printing and literary history. The advertisements for cures of “wasting diseases” are also an interesting bit of social history.
Price marked at $50 AUD. Fair antique condition with wear to covers, pages and corners as pictured. Heavy wear to spine.
