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William Collins, Sons & Co., often referred to as Collins, was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, the minister of Tron Church in Glasgow.
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.
The Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons, founded in 1819, was acquired by News Corp in 1989 and merged with Harper & Row to form HarperCollins. The logo for the firm combines the fire from Harper's torch and the water from Collins' fountain.
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
William Collins (publisher) (1789–1853), Scottish founder of the William Collins, Sons publishing house; 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 ...
The first five titles were published on 12 January 1970 by Fontana Books, the paperback imprint of William Collins & Co, and the series editor was Frank Kermode, who was Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London.