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The Illuminated Magazine was one among the many illustrated 1s monthly magazines which characterised the nascent entrepreneurship and rapid development of the periodical idea in the 1830s and 1840s. It was short lived, running to three volumes between 1843 and 1844 under its first editor, the playwright, journalist and progressive thinker Douglas Jerrold, before slipping into oblivion after two further, increasingly eccentric volumes under the guidance of the engraver, poet and political activist W J Linton, who wound up the project after printing his doggerel epic ‘The Poorhouse Fugitives’ in the fifth and final volume in 1845. Each 64-page monthly issue used the squarish, double column page popularised by Punch , a conspicuously versatile shape for a publication containing a wide variety of illustrations. 1 And illustrations were, as its title suggests, central to the Illuminated Magazine . The magazine continued to use the single page etchings and engravings which characterised the publication of fiction in the 1830s and 1840s, but also incorporated into the text a large number of wood-engraved images which might be called ‘vignettes’ were it not for the energy and boldness with which they commandeer space within the double column page, often shaping themselves into complex geometric forms very different to the soft-edged rounded shapes usually associated with end-grain wood-engraved vignettes. Nor can these illustrations properly be called ‘small’, as many of them bully the circumambient text into secondary importance. These wood-engraved images were used variously as column headings, as capital letters, as borders or as endpieces much in the style of eighteenth-century steel or copper engraved flourishes. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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