A. & C. Black Colour Book Specialist - Welcome to Bolton
Books
Here we offer you a broad selection of titles
where the emphasis is very much on quality. Those areas in
which we specialise – the A. & C. Black Colour Books,
the publications of T.N. Foulis, other colour plate and illustrated
books, and topography – are well represented.
There is also a selection of children’s
books which are predominantly from the same era and also published,
mainly, by A. & C. Black. However, this site has been
designed for ease-of-use so go ahead and see for yourself
using the keyword.
A.
& C. Black Colour Books
The great publishing firm of Adam and
Charles Black was founded in Edinburgh in 1807 by Adam Black
and at one time had the copyright of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
It was in 1901, however, that the firm started production
of their colour books with the recently invented three-colour
printing process.
These
colour plate books brought the world into the Edwardian family
home at a time when travel,
especially overseas, was much more difficult than it is
today.
Illustrated
Books
In addition to A. & C. Black, other
publishers produced many illustrated books.
We
have a considerable range of titles by T. N. Foulis (another
great Edinburgh publishing house), J.M. Dent, Chatto &
Windus,
B.T. Batsford, and W. & R. Chambers,
to name but a few.
Why
choose Bolton Books?
Bolton Books prides itself on being a
specialist, and not a general, bookseller. We are the pre-eminent
specialist in the A. & C. Black Colour Books, not only
within Great Britain but also, probably, in the world.
The standards we set
are of the highest order and all books are carefully
checked for completeness and are as accurately described
as possible. We currently have over one thousand titles
online and this figure is continually growing.
