Charles Black

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, Walter M.…

…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 reference dealing…