Publications of A. 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 by A. Bell

  • Mason, William. The best improvement of the much lamented death of that eminent and faithful minister of the Gospel, the Revd. Mr. George Whitefield, chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon: ... Addressed to the people of the Tabernacle and the Chapel, in Tottenham-Court-Road. By W. M. The second edition.. London: printed and sold by A. Bell, M. Lewis, and I. Matthews, 1770. ESTC No. N32389. Grub Street ID 21070.

Printed for A. Bell

  • A new edition in quarto, corrected, improved, and greatly enlarged; dedicated, by permission, to the King. This day is published, by Elliot and Kay, no 332. opposite Somerset-Place, Strand, number I. Price one shilling (to be continued weekly); also volume I. part I. containing 10 numbers neatly done up in boards, ... Part II. will be published ... 13th September 1788, being ten weeks from the former part, and at which time the first volume (consisting of 20 numbers) may be had complete, ... the same mode ... to be observed in publishing the subsequent volumes of Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... [Edinburgh: printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar. Sold by Messrs Elliot and Kay, London; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1788]. ESTC No. N14336. Grub Street ID 4217.