{{short description|American literary magazine (1868–1916)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Lippincott's Monthly Magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Lippincott's Magazine July 1884.jpg | image_size = <!-- (defaults to user thumbnail size if no size is stated) --> | image_alt = | image_caption = One page of the issue dated July 1884, apparently as Vol. VIII, No. 8 | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = Monthly | circulation = | publisher = | founder = | founded = | firstdate = 1868 | finaldate = 1916 | company = J. B. Lippincott & Co. (to 1914) | country = United States | based = Philadelphia | language = English | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine''''' was a 19th-century literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915, when it relocated to New York to become ''McBride's Magazine''. It merged with ''Scribner's Magazine'' in 1916.
''Lippincott's'' published original works, general articles, and literary criticism. It is indexed in the Reader's Guide Retrospective database, and the full-text of many issues is available online from Project Gutenberg, and in various commercial databases such as the American Periodicals Series from ProQuest. [[File:Lippincott's Monthly Magazine advertisement in The Black Cat of April 1912.jpg|thumb|262x262px|Lippincott's Monthly Magazine advertisement in The Black Cat of April 1912]] ''Lippincott's'' was published by J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia until 1914, then by McBride, Nast & Co. There were 96 semi-annual volumes. From 1881 to 1885 they were issued as vols. 1 to 10 "New Series" or "N.S." (see image) and bound such as "Old Series, Vol. XXVII – New Series, Vol. I" (January to June 1881) but the old series was resumed with January 1887 issued as volume 37, number 1.
==Early names== * 1868–1870: ''Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education'' * 1871–1885: ''Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science''
==Notable authors== ''Lippincott's'' published several notable authors of the day, including: *Gertrude Atherton: ''Doomswoman'' (1892) *Willa Cather *Florence Earle Coates, Philadelphia poet whose poetry was featured nearly five dozen<ref>Bohm, Sonja N., comp. ''The Published Works of Florence Earle Coates (Magazines)''. 2009. Print.</ref> times in ''Lippincott's'' between 1885 and 1915. *Arthur Conan Doyle: ''The Sign of the Four'' (February 1890) *Paul Laurence Dunbar: ''The Sport of the Gods'' (1901) *Rudyard Kipling: ''The Light that Failed'' (January 1891) *Emma Lazarus (over 40 poems in the 1870s) *Louis Sullivan: ''The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered'' (1896) *Anthony Trollope: ''The Vicar of Bullhampton'' (serialized starting in July 1869) *Oscar Wilde: ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (July 1890)
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==Notable editors== *1886–1894: Joseph Marshall Stoddart *1905-1914: Joseph Berg Esenwein
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *Publication history from OCLC's WorldCat Database and American Periodicals Series (APS) Online. *<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.sciper.org/browse/per_l.html Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodicals]</span>
==External links== {{commons category}} {{wikisource}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516192602/http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Lippincott%27s_Magazine_%28Bookshelf%29 ''Lippincott's'' at Project Gutenberg] * [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=lippincotts UPenn Library listing of online volumes]
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