Adam & Charles Black
Edinburgh publishing house ; from 1834, a partnership between Adam Black (1784–1874) and his nephew Charles Black (1807–54). Publishers of the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Edinburgh Review. Acquired the rights to Walter Scott’s Waverley novels in 1851.
Sources
Anon. 1957
DNB s.v. Black, Adam
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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