W 1819 powst. w Glasgow W. Collins & Co, od 1868 nazwa William Collins, Sons & Co. W 1974 zakupiło World Publishing Company, który w 1980 odsprzedał firmie Simon and Schuster. W 1990 firma połączyła się z amerykańskim Harper & Row w HarperCollins, od tego momentu wszystkie imprinty William Collins, Sons & Co. wraz z nazwą Collins zostały imprintami HarperCollins. Imprinty: Fontana, Fountain Books.

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The finance minister, the currency and the public debt / by H. C. Carey. - Philadelphia, 1868. S. tyt. (Collins, Printer)

The hunting hypothesis / Robert Ardrey. - London, 1976. (William Collins Sons & Co)

Kp. The club of queer trades / G. K. Chesterton. - London, 1926. (W. Collins Sons & Co.)

Polar deserts / Wally Herbert. - London ; Glasgow, 1971. (Collins Publishers)

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Roman go home / by Adam Fergusson. - London, 1969. Wyd.: (Collins LTD.)

Kp. Webster's New World dictionary of the American language / David B. Guralnik, editor in chef. - Cleveland [i inne], 1974. Na s. tyt.: (William Collins + World Publishing Co., Inc.)

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Kp. The first circle / Alexander Solzhenitsyn. - [S. l.], 1970. S. tyt.: (Collins Fontana Books)

Europe between revolutions 1815-1848 / Jacques Droz. - [London], 1977. S. tyt. (Fontana/Collins)

Kp. Petrograd / by Meriel Buchanan. - London, cop. 1918. Wydawca:(W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.)

Jackdaw / Christopher Hill. - London [etc.], 1975. S. red.: (William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.)

Kp. Charles Rennie Mackintosh / Robert Macleod. - London ; Glasgow, 1980. Wydawca:(William Collins Sons and Company Limited)

Kp. Sanitary science / by R. Scott Burn. - Glasgow and London, 1872. Wydawca:(William Collins, Sons, & Company)

Gate arrays / edited by John W. Read. - London, 1985. S. red. (Collins Professional and Technical, William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd).