Imprints
Published under its own name
This house publishes under its own name.
History
A brief history
John Blackie (1782-1874) started the firm in 1809 in partnership as Blackie, Fullarton and Company, selling subscription works — religious texts and reference books — by instalment; when Fullarton retired the house took the name Blackie and Son in 1831.1 It settled in Glasgow, with later offices in Edinburgh and at Charing Cross in London, and branches in Canada and India.1 Blackie's fortunes turned on compulsory education from 1870: it became one of Britain's great publishers of school texts and children's books, issuing G. A. Henty's adventure novels, Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies from 1923, and Topsy and Tim from 1960.1 It went public in 1890, built a scientific list from the 1920s under the Cambridge engineer Frederick Bisacre, and stopped publishing in 1991 after 182 years.1 Its place here is earlier and quieter: George Offor's three-volume edition of The Works of John Bunyan (1853-54), long the standard collected Bunyan and the text Banner of Truth reprints (catalogued separately).2
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