Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Adam and Charles Black (Firm), publisher.
- Abstract:
- This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). The volumes cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation.
- Extent:
- 598 items
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). The volumes cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. (499150:095) and J.M. Dent (499150:421).
Most volumes bound in the publisher's pictorial cloth bindings. Many dust jackets are damaged, and some spines are damaged.
- Biographical / historical:
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The firm of Adam and Charles Black, known as A & C Black, was a 19th and 20th-century Edinburgh and London publisher; founded in 1807.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Harold L. and Dorothy Galitz.
- Arrangement:
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Items are arranged alphabetically by title, with subnumbering of the main accession number (e.g. "499150:225").
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Note:
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Finding aid last updated on November 7, 2014.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Bible.
Animals.
Anthropology.
Antiquities.
Architecture.
Art.
Biography.
Birds -- Great Britain.
Canon (Literature)
Children's literature.
Children's stories.
Fiction.
Gardening.
History, Ancient.
Human geography.
Military art and science.
Music.
Natural history.
Plants.
Poetry.
Recreation.
Transportation.
Voyages and travels.
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- Scotland -- 20th century.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- Scotland -- 20th century.
Travel literature -- 20th century.
Fiction -- 20th century.
Juvenile literature -- 20th century.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191