A & C Black - Wikipedia A & C Black From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search A & C Black Parent company Bloomsbury Publishing Founded 1807; 214 years ago (1807) Founder Adam Black and Charles Black Country of origin United Kingdom Headquarters location London Publication types Books Nonfiction topics Reference Official website www.acblack.com A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing. Contents 1 History 2 Notable books 3 Book series 4 Imprints 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links History[edit] Adam and Charles Black's 1863 edition of Woodstock, by Sir Walter Scott (first publ. 1826) The firm was founded in 1807 by Adam Black in Edinburgh, and moved to the Soho district of London in 1889. In 1851, the firm bought the copyright of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels for £27,000. During the years 1827–1903 the firm published the 7th, 8th and 9th editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Beginning in 1839, the firm published a series of travel guides known as Black's Guides. The company was the publisher of the annual Who's Who (since 1849) and also, since 2002, the Whitaker's Almanack. Other notable works include Black's Medical Dictionary and the Know The Game series of sports rules and laws reference books.[1] The firm also published the A. & C. Black Colour Books: Twenty Shilling Series (1901–21),[2] a "range of high-quality colour collectable picture books"[3] which are still collected by bibliophiles.[4] In 1902 they published P. G. Wodehouse's first book, The Pothunters, and went on to produce many of his early works. In 1989 A & C Black purchased both Christopher Helm Publishers and later the Pica Press, publishers of the Helm Identification Guides, from Christopher Helm.[5] In 2000 A & C Black was purchased by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, which continued producing the former's range of reference works. In June 2002, T. & A. D. Poyser and their back-list of around 70 ornithology titles were acquired from Elsevier Science. A & C Black purchased Methuen Drama from Methuen Publishing in 2006, and acquired Arden Shakespeare from Cengage Learning in 2008. In 2016, A & C Black Music list moved to Collins Learning, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Notable books[edit] World maps from A & C Black's 1854 General Atlas Of The World Black's Medical Dictionary Whitaker's Almanack Who's Who Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Writers' & Artists' Yearbook Book series[edit] Artist's Sketch Book Series Ballet Pocket Series (Newman Wolsey; then: A. & C. Black)[6] Black's Guides Black's Novel Library[7] Black's Popular Series of Colour Books Black's "Water-colour" series Colour Books: The 7s. 6d. Net Series Colour Books: The 6s. Net Series Colour Books: The 10s. Net Series Colour Books: The 20s. Net Series Dancers of To-day The Fascination of London[8] Guild Text-books Know the Game The Making of the Nations[9] Peeps at Ancient Civilisations Peeps at Great Cities Peeps at Great Explorers Peeps at Great Men Peeps at Great Railways Peeps at History Peeps at Industries Peeps at Many Lands Peeps at Nature Peeps at Nature for Little Children Peeps for Little People The Peeps Series (sometimes called: Miscellaneous Peeps series) Imprints[edit] Adlard Coles Nautical Arden Shakespeare Andrew Brodie Publications Featherstone Methuen Drama T. & A. D. Poyser Reeds Almanac John Wisden & Co References[edit] ^ Know The Game, archive.org. Retrieved 16 April 2017. ^ A. & C. Black Colour Books: Twenty Shilling Series, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved on 16 April 2017. ^ The History of A&C Black Publishers, archive.org. Retrieved on 16 April 2017. ^ Cliff Tomaszewski, "A. & C. Black's 20/- Colour Books", Stella and Rose's Books. Retrieved 16 April 2017. ^ FOB: Firms Out of Business, utexas.edu. Retrieved 16 April 2017. ^ Ballet Pocket Series (Newman Wolsey Ltd; then: A. & C. Black) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 31 January 2020. ^ bibliogroup:Black's Novel Library, Google Books. Retrieved 31 January 2020. ^ Sir Walter Besant and G. E. Mitton, The Fascination of London: Holburn and Bloomsbury, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903 (The Fascination of London series), archive.org. Retrieved 31 January 2020. ^ The Making of the Nations (A. & C. Black) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 31 January 2020. Further reading[edit] Colin Inman, The A & C Black Colour Books: A Collector's Guide and Bibliography 1900-1930, London: Werner Shaw, 1990. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adam and Charles Black. A&C Black - archive.org copy of the site as it was on 15 January 2010. History of A&C Black, acblack.com (archive.org copy). 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Black Publishers Ltd, University of Reading Recovering Publishing Histories: the Adam & Charles Black Letterbooks Authority control ISNI: 0000 0001 2238 3020 LCCN: n50075615 VIAF: 123220463 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50075615 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_%26_C_Black&oldid=993307247" Categories: Encyclopædia Britannica Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Ornithological publishing companies Publishing companies established in 1807 1807 establishments in Scotland 1889 establishments in England Companies based in Edinburgh History of Edinburgh Companies based in the City of Westminster Book publishing companies of Scotland Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from January 2018 Use British English from January 2018 Commons category link is on Wikidata Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikisource Languages Bahasa Indonesia Português Simple English Edit links This page was last edited on 9 December 2020, at 23:04 (UTC). 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