ST. PETERSBURG - COLLINS, WILLIAM.

St. Petersburg.

London, Glasgow & Edinburgh ca. 1870. Coloured lithograph showing a bird's eye view of the city. 22 x 28 cm. Framed and matted.

Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow. The company had to overcome many early obstacles, and Charles Chalmers left the business in 1825. The company eventually found success in 1841 as a printer of Bibles, and in 1848 Collins's son Sir William Collins developed the firm as a publishing venture, specializing in religious and educational books. The company was renamed William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. in 1868.

Order-nr.: 38865