The leather is lightly chipped at the edges, the boards lightly rubbed and the head of the front board very lightly bumped towards the inner edge. The back hinge is lightly cracked at the head, but this has no effect on the binding which remains solid. Internally the book is clean and unmarked. A handsome volume. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy, it weighs over a kilo, and will attract additional postage. "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"