T. & A. D. Poyser began as a
British
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publisher
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, founded by Trevor and Anna Poyser in 1973, to specialise in
ornithology
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books. It was located in
Berkhamsted
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, Hertfordshire, and later in
Calton, Staffordshire
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.
T. & A. D. Poyser often worked in conjunction with the
British Trust for Ornithology
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is an organisation founded in 1932 for the study of birds in the British Isles. The Prince of Wales has been patron since October 2020.
History
Beginnings
In 1931 Max Nicholson wrote:
In the United State ...
, having early success with the ''Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland'' (1976).
Trevor and Anna Poyser sold the business to
Academic Press
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in January 1990. This was, in turn, taken over by
Harcourt Brace
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and then
Elsevier Science
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. Academic Press added a new
imprint
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...
, Poyser Natural History.
In June 2002, the brand and back-list of around 70 titles were acquired by
A & C Black
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History
The firm was founded in 18 ...
(in turn part of
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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) from Elsevier Science. Bloomsbury continue to use the T & A D Poyser imprint. The 100th book on the imprint will be ''The Common Buzzard'' by Sean Walls and Robert Kenward, publishing in early 2020.
Trevor Poyser died in late August or early September 2017.
Notable publications
*''Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland'' (1976)
*''
The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds
''The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds - their distribution and abundance'' () is an ornithological atlas published for the European Bird Census Council by T & A D Poyser in 1997. Its editors were Ward J. M. Hagemeijer and Michael J. Blai ...
'', (1997)
References
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External links
A & C Black website
Ornithological publishing companies
Poyser, T and A D
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