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Title: A & C Black Book Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1864-1959
Bulk dates: 1901-1936
Collection Number: 499150
Creator:
Adam and Charles Black (Firm), publisher.
Extent:
598 items
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Rare Books Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
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.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on November 7, 2014.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
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[Identification of item]. A & C Black book collection. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Gift of Harold L. and Dorothy Galitz.
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.
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.
Items are arranged alphabetically by title, with subnumbering of the main accession number (e.g. "499150:225").
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
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.
Africa -- Civilization.
Africa -- Description and travel.
Africa -- Social life and customs.
Asia -- Civilization.
Asia -- Description and travel.
Asia -- Social life and customs.
Australasia -- Description and travel.
Australasia -- Social life and customs.
Australia -- Description and travel.
California.
Canada.
Caribbean Area.
Central America -- Description and travel.
Central America -- History.
Europe -- Civilization.
Europe -- Description and travel.
Europe -- History.
Europe -- Social life and customs.
Great Britain -- Civilization.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
South America -- Description and travel.
South America -- History.
Oceania.
United States -- Description and travel.
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.
Dent, J. M. (Joseph Malaby), 1849-1926, publisher.
Galitz, Harold L., donor.
Galitz, Dorothy, donor.
William Collins Sons and Co., publisher.