Publications of William Collins

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed for William Collins

  • The Salisbury journal containing the most material occurrences both foreign and domestick. Sarum [i.e. Salisbury, England]: printed for William Collins book-seller in Silver-Street, where letters and advertisements are taken in, [1736-1739]. ESTC No. P120. Grub Street ID 55041.

Author

  • Collins, William. No. 5, John-Street, Leading from Oxford-Street, to Great Portland-Street, Opposite White's Manufactory for Carriages. The First part of W. Collins's Catalogue, For 1800. A Catalogue of part of the library of John Montresor, Esq. Formerly Chief Engineer in America: Consisting of Books, Manuscripts, Drawings, Prints, Maps, Plans, Surveys, &c. With the Addition of some Others, recently purchased. Also A Collection of English and Foreign Portraits, To be sold singly, at the Price marked upon each. By William Collins, Bookseller, No. 5, John-Street, Leading from Oxford-Street to Great Portland-Street. Catalogue to be had at the Place of Sale. London]: Printed by W. Wilson, St. Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons, [1800. ESTC No. T60459. Grub Street ID 286318.