Publications of Nathaniel Bell

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed for Nathaniel Bell

  • Bromley, Thomas. The way to the Sabbath of rest: or the soul's progress in the work of the new-birth. To which are now added, two discourses of the author, never before printed, viz. The journeys of the children of Israel, as in their Names and Historical Passages, they Comprise the great and gradual Work of Regeneration. And A treatise of extraordinary divine dispensations, under the Jewish and Gospel Administrations. By Mr. Thomas Bromley. Leeds: printed for Nathaniel Bell, Bookseller in York; and sold by Mess. Rivingtons, Booksellers in St. Paul's Church-Yard, in London; and by most Booksellers in Town and Country, 1744. ESTC No. T105228. Grub Street ID 158590.