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[[Image:Frontispiece 1863 Woodstock-whole.png|thumb|Adam and Charles Black's 1863 edition of ''Woodstock'', by [[Walter Scott]] (first publ. 1826)]]
'''A & C Black''' is a British book publishing company.

The firm was founded in 1807 by [[Adam Black|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 (UK)|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 [http://www.knowthegame.co.uk/default.asp?id=12].

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]].

A & C Black purchased Methuen Drama from [[Methuen Publishing]] in 2006, and acquired [[Arden Shakespeare]] from [[Cengage Learning]] in 2008.

The company is now part of [[Bloomsbury Publishing Plc]], who purchased it in 2000, and produces that company's range of [[reference work]]s.

==Imprints==
*Adlard Coles Nautical
*[[Arden Shakespeare]]
*Andrew Brodie Publications
*Featherstone
*[[Methuen Drama]]
*[[T & A D Poyser]]
*Reeds Almanac
*[[John Wisden & Co.]]

==External links==
* [http://www.acblack.com/aboutus.asp?mscssid=G0W21CA2GX178GM6U4GPAUXJP4GEF73F ACBlack.com corporate history]
* [http://www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk/html/about/a_structure.html Bloomsbury Publishing corporate structure]
* [http://www.whitakersalmanack.com/whitakers.asp?page=home.asp Whitaker's Almanack]
* [http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/writer/B/a--c-colour-books-black--twenty-shilling-series.asp A & C Black Colour Books: Twenty Shilling Series]

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