publishing the news-sheet called The Perfect Diurnal. It is likely that there was more than one publisher of this name and that the above imprints may refer to father and son.
COLLINGS (R.), see Collins (R.).
COLLINS (ARTHUR), bookseller (?) in London, 1641. Described as one of the "better sort of freemen" of the Company of Stationers, in a list of those who had paid their respective proportions of the poll-tax on August 5th, 1641. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483 (11).]
COLLINS (JAMES), bookseller in London, (1) King's Arms, Ludgate Street; (2) King's Arms in Ivy Lane, 1666; (3) King's Head, Westminster Hall, 1667–70 (1664–81). Dealer in all kinds of literature. A list of seven books printed for and sold by him at his shop in Westminster Hall in 1667 occupies the recto of the last leaf of J. Glanvill's Same Considerations about Witchcraft. In this list is mentioned The Compleat Angler, and Bishop Hall's works in three folio vols. [Library, N.S., No. 24; Arber, Term Catalogues, vol. i, passim.]
COLLINS (JOHN), bookseller in London; Neer the church in Little Britain, 1651–54. His name is found on Sir A. Weldon's Court and character of King James, 1651, and in John Turner's Commemoration … of the … Gunpowder Plot, 1654. Smyth in his Obituary (p. 67), records his death:—"15 Septr., 1665. Collyns, bookseller agst ye church in Little Britain died ex peste."
COLLINS (MATHEW), bookseller in London; Three Black Birds, Cannon Street, 1660–64. Only known from the imprints to two publications, the first a broadside, The True Effigies of the German Giant, 1660 [Bodleian]; and Daniel's Copy Book, 1664. [Hazlitt, H. 227, iii. 287.]
COLLINS (RICHARD), bookseller in London, 1630(?)–48. His name is found on a political pamphlet entitled A Declaration concerning the King … 1648. [E. 473 (17).] He may be identical with the Richard Collins, stationer, who took up his freedom January 30th, 1628. [Arber, iii. 686.]
