Blackie, John & Co
Datensatz IDcni00051945
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cni00051945
Letzte Änderung2014-03-14
Anmerkung
John Blackie, son of John Blackie and Agnes Burrell, was born in Glasgow on 27 October 1781. His parents came from Haddington and were married in Glasgow. He was sent out to work in the tobacco trade at the age of six and apprenticed to Robert Dobbie, a weaver, at eleven in 1794. His apprenticeship ended in 1799, and Blackie spent a further two years with his old master as a journeyman weaver, he then took employment in the weaving shop of John Duncan. In 1804 he married their youngest daughter Catherine. Shortly after the birth of his eldest son, John, he gave up weaving and became a bookseller, working for the Brownlies. He was engaged by one of the brothers 'to travel for him to canvas and deliver' A. & W. D. Brownlie sold there business in or about 1808 to John Blackie. On 20 November 1809 he went into partnership with Archibald Fullarton and William Sommerville, all of whom had worked for Brownlies. In 1819 the firm split in two, though still linked in partnership, Blackie went into partnership with the firms printer, Edward Khull, at the old address in Glasgow, while the other partners set up as Fullarton, Sommerville & Co booksellers in Edinburgh. In 1821 William Sommerville resigned from the Edinburgh firm and in 1826 Edward Khull resigned though remaining on the same premises and Blackie's eldest son John (1805-73) joined the firm. The Glasgow firm became Blackie, Fullarton & Co. In 1821 the partnership between Blackie and Fullarton was dissolved. John Blackie's second son, Walter Graham Blackie (1816-1906) was trained as a printer, and when George Brookman proved unreliable in 1837 took over the Valleyfield Printing Works, which John Blackie had bought some years previously, and which had been operating under the name of George Brookman and Co. The firm was now called W.G. Blackie & Co. It continued as a separate company in name until the second half of the century. However in 1842 W.G. Blackie and his younger brother Robert (1820-96) were made partners in Blackie & Son. In 1860 John Blackie senior retired, but already by 1845 the day to day running of the business was in the hands of John Blackie junior. John Blackie senior died in 1874. John junior had died the previous year. Religious books had been his speciality, and with his death, that side of the firm's activities was allowed to die away, and they turned in stead to educational publishing. John Alexander Blackie (1850-1918), the eldest son of Walter Blackie became a partner in 1876. Robert Blackie's son, James Robertson Blackie (1854-1911) joined the firm in 1877, and became a partner in 1881. Walter G. Blackie's son Walter Wilfred Blackie (1860-1953) left the firm to farm in Canada, but was persuaded to return in 1884 to take over the London branch. The firm became a Limited Company in 1890. Talwin Morris became head of the art department in 1892.
Weiterführende Informationen
Wirkungszeitraum1805-20th Century
Aktivitätprinters and booksellers
Wirkungsort
Glasgow; 5 Saltmarket (1812 - 1812)
Glasgow; East Clyde Street (1816 - 1819)
Glasgow; 38 Queen Street (1836 - 1856)
Glasgow; 36 North Frederick Street (1856 - 1870)
Glasgow; 17 Stanhope Street (1870 - 1999)
Beziehungen zu anderen Entitäten
Namen
AnsetzungsformBlackie, John & Co
verwendet in: National Library of Scotland, Scottish Book Trade Index
Variante NamensformW. Sommerville, A. Fullarton and J. Blackie & Co (1809 - 1811)
Black Boy Close, **Glasgow
[Edward] Khull Blackie & Co, publishers and printers (1819 - 1826)
*East Clyde Street, **Glasgow
Blackie, Fullarton & Co (1826 - 1831)
*East Clyde Street, **Glasgow
Quellen
Nachgewiesen inGlas Dir. — W. G. Blackie. “Sketch of the origin and progress of the firm of Blackie & Son”. [Glasgow] Printed for private circulation, 1897. Walter W. Blackie. “A Scottish student in Leipzig: being the letters of W.G. Blackie in the years 1839-40”. London and Glasgow, 1932. — Walter W. Blackie. “John Blackie senior (1782-1874)”. London and Glasgow, 1933. — Agnes A. Blackie. “Blackie & Son 1809-1959: a short history of the firm”. London and Glasgow, 1959