The eastern clarion., 1859-08-24
The Book and Stationery House of Col
Inns & Bro.---New York.

We find in the New York Sketch Book
and Merchants Guide, an interesting
account of the origin, history and present
business of this large and widely known
establishment. As so many of our books
sold by retail dealers in the South, come
from New York, it will be interesting to
the public to know something of one of
the oldest and most extensive concerns
from which their literature is received
We commend the sketch especially to our
retail merchants and school teachers.
TINS is perhaps one of the oldest book
firms in existence, its history dating as far
back as the year l770, when Mr.. Isaac
Collins was appointed printer to the king
for the province of New Jersey. In l779,
| the same Isaac Collins, who was the grand
father of the firm whose name heads this
article, became the printer and publisher
of paper called the New-Jersev Gazette.
! copies of which are still in existence and
to be found in one or two of our public IL
braries. In l7S9, Mr.. Collins executed
the printing of Ramsey's celebrated his
tory of South Carolina. This was pro-
nounced by Mr.. Ramsey himself to be
the best specimen of bOok-work at any
| time executed during that period The
| same gentleman subsequently published
| the first family quartO bible ever printed
! in America, running off an edition of
| 5000, which at that time was considered
| quite large. At the close of the career of
! this venerable publisher, the business fell
| into the hands Of his son. Mr.. b. S. Collins.
| who successfully conducted it until the
! year 1913, when 1t came in possession Of
| his sons, Messrs Robert B. and Charles
| Collins, who have successfully managed il
| until the present time. This firm is well
| known to the Southern trade, where for
| many years they have tillod orders for va
rious houses of the first standing. Messrs
| Collins Il Brother occupy, for the leCiti.
mate purposes of their business. three
| spacious floors of the substantial edifct
located at No - Warren street, where
they have all the necessary facilities fol
| doing a large business. There NAV b,
found large and well-assorted stock. in
Guiding English and classical school-books
miscellaneous books, family and poke
| bibles, testaments, prayer-bOOks, hymn
books, music-bOoks, cap, letter and note
writing papers, writing, tissue, and envel
ope papers, blanks, &c, and staple anC
fancy stationery in great variety, from
which country merchants and the trade
are supplied at the lowest prices. The
| Nessrs Collins are known to the commu
nifty az publishers of works of the highest
and most valuable character, as Is fully at
tested in their published catalogue. Theil
school and text books, particularly, vii
bear favorable comparison with the publ
cations of any other house in the country
To particularize or classify these would
be out of the question. One of their la
test publications, however, may be named
as supplying a great want. This is a new
Paragraph Testament, by which addition
al beauty is secured to the reading of the
sacred text. We can only close this no
tice by referring to the fact, that the
promptness and dispatch with which thi'
house fills its orders, and the equitable
manner in which its business is conduct
ed, are the surest guarantee that custom
ers will be promptly dealt with.