Orbis Publishing

Not to be confused with Orbis Books.

Orbis Publishing Ltd. was a United Kingdom-based publisher of books and partworks. The company was founded in 1970 and changed its name to De Agostini UK Ltd. in 1999, after being acquired by the Italian De Agostini group.

Partworks published by Orbis included:

• The Home Computer Course
• The Home Computer Advanced Course
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft
• War in Peace
• War Machine
• The Elite: Against All Odds
• The Blues Collection
• The Unexplained
• The British Empire
• Play it Today
• All About Science
• The Movie: The Illustrated History of the Cinema, published 1979 to 1983 in 158 chapters

The Orbis Publishing Company[1] formed in 1994 is unrelated.

External links

• De Agostini UK website.

References

• "UK Aircraft Magazines". Aeroflight. http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mags/uk/ukmag02.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-14. 
• "IDNETUK : Reviews : DeAgostini UK". IDNETUK.com. http://www.idnetuk.co.uk/reviews/2397.html. Retrieved 2008-04-14. 

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