Adam Black
![Portrait by [[John Watson Gordon]].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Adam_Black_%281784%E2%80%931874%29%2C_Lord_Provost_of_Edinburgh_%281843%E2%80%931848%29.jpg)
Adam Black (20 February 178424 January 1874) was a Scottish publisher and politician. He founded the A & C Black publishing company, and published the 7th, 8th and 9th editions of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.
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