Adam Black

…Encyclopaedia Britannica was bought by Adam Black, another Edinburgh publisher, for whom Napier edited the seventh edition. Its 21 volumes, comprising 17,011 pages and 506 plates, appeared in parts from 1830 to 1842 and were a revision of previous editions, incorporating the Supplement and a number of newly commissioned articles.…

…a company that contracted with A. and C. Black to reprint the ninth edition, and with The Times of London, then in an uncertain financial state, to advertise the sale of the volumes. The moving spirit of this successful enterprise was the publisher Horace E. Hooper, who with another publisher,…

Bearing the imprint of Adam and Charles Black and The Times, the title page began: “The new volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica, constituting in combination with the existing volumes of the ninth edition the tenth edition of that work, and also supplying a new, distinctive, and independent library of…