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Parent company | HarperCollins |
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Founded | 1819 |
Founder | William Collins |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | Townhead, Glasgow, Scotland |
Publication types | Books |
Official website | collins |
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.[1]
Collins merged with Harper & Row in 1990, forming a new publisher named HarperCollins.