Blackwood (publishing house)

William Blackwood and Sons
StatusDefunct
Founded1804; 220 years ago (1804)
FounderWilliam Blackwood
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationEdinburgh, Scotland
Publication typesBooks, magazines
Blackwood's Magazine, 1829

William Blackwood and Sons was a Scottish publishing house and printer founded by William Blackwood in 1804. It played a key role in literary history, publishing many important authors, for example John Buchan, George Tomkyns Chesney, Joseph Conrad, George Eliot, E. M. Forster, John Galt, John Neal, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, John Hanning Speke and Anthony Trollope, both in books and in the monthly Blackwood’s Magazine.