Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. XXV, January–June 1829. William Blackwood, Edinburgh and T. Cadell, Strand, London. (With a portrait of 16th century Scottish historian George Buchanan on the cover)
Categories	Miscellany
Frequency	monthly
Founder	William Blackwood
Founded	1817
Final issue	1980 (1980)
Company	Blackwood
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	Edinburgh, Scotland
Language	English
ISSN	0006-436X

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, religious and political thinker.