A & C Black is a British book publishing
company.
The firm
was founded in 1807 by Adam and Charles Black in Edinburgh
, and moved to the Soho
district of
London
in 1889. In 1851, the firm bought the
copyright of
Walter Scott's
Waverley Novels for £27,000. In 1902 it
published
P. G. Wodehouse's first book,
The Pothunters, and went on to produce
many of his early works.The company is best known as the publisher
of the annual
Who's Who
(since 1897) 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
[224207].
A & C Black purchased both
Christopher Helm Publishers and
later the
Pica Press, publishers of the
Helm Identification
Guides, from
Christopher
Helm.
In June 2002,
T & A D Poyser
and their back-list of around 70
ornithology titles were acquired from
Elsevier Science.
The company is now part of
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and
produces that company's range of
reference works.
Other imprints
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