John Bell, 1745-1831: A Memoir

by Morison Stanley and Stanley Morison

John Bell (1745-1831) was an English publisher. The Dictionary of National Biography has Charles Knight calling Bell a 'mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers'. His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, which rivalled Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, at a time when similar volumes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521143144
• ISBN13: 9780521143141
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"