Jane Bell (fl. 1650–1659)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Printer
  • Bookseller

Names

  • Jane Bell
  • Jean Bell
  • Jeane Bell

Jane Bell, bookseller and printe, at the East end of Christchurch, 1650–59.

A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667, by Henry Plomer (1907)

BELL (JANE), bookseller and printer in London; East end of Christchurch, 1650–59. Succeeded Moses Bell. Printer of popular literature such as Amadis de Gaul and Reynard the Fox. Hazlitt notes an edition of Sir P. Sidney's Ourania printed by her in 1655 with a curious list of books. [Hazlitt, i. 30.] Most of her type was old.