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William Collins (12 October 1789 – 2 January 1853) was a Scottish schoolmaster, editor and publisher who founded William Collins, Sons, now part of HarperCollins. [1] [2] William Collins was born at Eastwood, Renfrewshire, on 12 October 1789. [3] He was a millworker who established a company in 1819 for printing and publishing.
By 1841 Collins was established as a printer of Bibles. In 1846, Collins retired and his son Sir William Collins took over. In 1848, the firm developed as a publishing venture, specialising in religious and educational books. In 1856, the first Collins atlas was published. The company was renamed William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. in 1868. [3]
Full House is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC.The show is about widowed father Danny Tanner who enlists his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis and childhood best friend Joey Gladstone to help raise his three daughters, eldest Donna Jo Margaret (D.J. for short), middle child Stephanie and youngest Michelle in his San Francisco home.
William Collins (Lord Provost) (1817–1895), Scottish temperance movement activist; son of publisher William Collins. William Collins, Sons (est. 1819), Scottish publishing house, became part of HarperCollins in 1990, a subsidiary of News Corp.
Books originally published by William Collins, Sons (1819—1990) in the U.K. — acquired by News Corporation in 1990, and merged into HarperCollins books Contents Top
Collins Crime Club was an imprint of British book publishers William Collins, Sons and ran from 6 May 1930 to April 1994. [1] Throughout its 64 years the club issued a total of 2,012 [ 2 ] first editions of crime novels and reached a high standard of quality throughout.
He was born in Glasgow on 12 October 1817. His father William Collins, publisher, was a highly respected citizen, well known far and wide by his affective advocacy of the temperance cause, of which he was one of the original promoters in Scotland, and also for his devoted labours in connection with the comprehensive and successful scheme for Church Extension throughout Scotland.
The Collins first edition of June 1926 (retailing for seven shillings and sixpence) [2] was Christie's first work placed with that publisher. "The first book that Agatha wrote for Collins was the one that changed her reputation forever; no doubt she knew, as through 1925 she turned the idea over in her mind, that here she had a winner."