Blackie & Son of GLASGOW The Main Glasgow printing works Stanhope Street and the old Villafield Press.   A company history records that Talwin Morris redesigned the office at Stanhope Street and the two swing doors at the entrance.

 

(lettering from the spine c 1896) CLICK HERE FOR BLACKIE'S OWN LISTS OF BOOKS IN THE VARIOUS SERIES

Much of the company's commercial success was based on the Vere Foster Copy Books writing books for schools Blackie's acquired the titles in 1893 and opened a Dublin Office entirely devoted to the production of the Copy Books. Foster was an Irish philanthropist *1891 - 1900) who had developed the books as an adjunct to his other work in education. For Blackie, they were also a 'passport to the schools' as one company history has it.

CORPORATE IDENTITY no enlargements here from English Pastorals (spine) 1894   from The Little Plays series c1898