John Bell

(1745-1831)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bell, John, 1745-1831 DNB: Bell, John (1745-1831), printer and bookseller LBT ID: JoBell1831 VIAF ID: 51741707 LOC ID: n79018799	B/BAP: 1745 DIED: 1831-02-26
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London printer and bookseller whose Poets of Great Britain (1777-82) was a less expensive alternative to that produced by Samuel Johnson and the booksellers. Bell published The World newspaper in which much of the Della Cruscan verse originally appeared.
REFERENCES TO John Bell: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 2: ¶ 95 ¶ 98 The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 213 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 1: ¶ 22 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 1: ¶ 11