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Black, the son of a builder, was See also: born in See also: Edinburgh on the loth of See also: February 1784
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After serving, his apprenticeship to the See also: bookselling See also: trade in Edinburgh and See also: London, he began business for himself in Edinburgh in ,8o8
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By 1826 he was recognized as one of the See also: principal booksellers in the city; and a few years later he was joined in business by his See also: nephew See also: Charles
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The two most important events connected with the
See also: history of the firm were the publication of the 7th, 8th and 9th See also: editions of the See also: Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the See also: purchase of the stock and See also: copyright of the Waverley Novels
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The copyright of the Encyclopaedia passed into the hands of See also: Adam Black and a few See also: friends in 1827
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In 1851 the firm bought the copyright of the Waverley Novels for £27,000; and in 186, they became the proprietors of De Quincey's See also: works
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Adam Black was twice See also: lord provost of Edinburgh, and represented the city in parliament from 1856 to 1865
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He retired from business in 1865, and died on the 24th of See also: January 1874
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He'was succeeded by his sons, who removed their business in 1895 to London
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There is a See also: bronze statue of Adam Black in See also: East Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
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See See also: Memoirs of Adam Black, edited by See also: Alexander
See also: Nicholson (2nd ed., Edinburgh, 1885)
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