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BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)

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BLACK, See also:ADAM (1784-1874) , Scottish publisher, founder of the See also:firm of A. & C. Black, the son of a builder, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the loth of See also:February 1784. After serving, his See also:apprenticeship to the See also:bookselling See also:trade in Edinburgh and See also:London, he began business for himself in Edinburgh in ,8o8. By 1826 he was recognized as one of the See also:principal booksellers in the See also:city; and a few years later he was joined in business by his See also:nephew See also:Charles. The two most important events connected with the See also:history of the firm were the publication of the 7th, 8th and 9th See also:editions of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the See also:purchase of the stock and See also:copyright of the Waverley Novels. The copyright of the Encyclopaedia passed into the hands of Adam Black and a few See also:friends in 1827. In 1851 the firm bought the copyright of the Waverley Novels for £27,000; and in 186, they became the proprietors of De Quincey's See also:works. Adam Black was twice See also:lord See also:provost of Edinburgh, and represented the city in See also:parliament from 1856 to 1865. He retired from business in 1865, and died on the 24th of See also:January 1874. He'was succeeded by his sons, who removed their business in 1895 to London. There is a See also:bronze statue of Adam Black in See also:East Princes See also:Street Gardens, Edinburgh.

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Memoirs of Adam Black, edited by See also:Alexander See also:Nicholson (2nd ed., Edinburgh, 1885).

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