Publications of Gabriel Bedell

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."

Sold by Gabriel Bedell

  • Thomas, William. The regulating of law-suits, evidences, and pleadings. An assize-sermon preach't at Carmarthen, March the 16th. 1656. By VVilliam Thomas Vicar of Laughorn. London: printed at the request of some eminent auditors: sold by Gabriel Bedell and T. Collins, at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleet-street, 1657. ESTC No. R1308. Grub Street ID 61206.

Printed for Gabriel Bedell

  • Digges, Dudley. The compleat ambassador: or Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of glorious memory; comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France. Together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others. Wherein, as in a clear mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood; with many remarkable passages of state, not at all mentioned in any history. Faithfully collected by the truly honourable, Sir Dudly Digges Knight, late master of th Rolls. London: printed by Tho: Newcomb, for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1655. ESTC No. R22010. Grub Street ID 94552.
  • The triumphant lady: or, The crowned innocence. A choice and authentick piece of the famous, De Ceriziers, almoner to the King. Translated into English, out of the original French, by Sir William Lower Knight. London: printed for Ga. Bedell, and Tho. Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet-street, 1656. ESTC No. R209636. Grub Street ID 85866.
  • Gee, Edward. Steps of ascention vnto God or A ladder to heauen. Contayning prayers and meditation for euery day of the weeke and for all other tymes & occasions. The 9th. edition by E.G. D.D. [London]: Printed for G[abriel]. Bedell & T[homas]. Collins, 1656. ESTC No. R177349. Grub Street ID 69496.
  • Raleigh, Carew. Observations upon some particular persons and passages, in a book lately make publick; intituled, A compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son James, the Sixth of Scotland, and the First of England, France and Ireland. Written by a lover of the truth. London: printed for Ga. Bedell and Tho. Collins, at the middle-Temple Gate, Fleet-Street, 1656. ESTC No. R206058. Grub Street ID 82638.
  • Certain letters, evidencing the Kings stedfastness in the Protestant religion: sent from the Princess of Turenne, and the ministers of Charenton, to some persons of quality in London. London: printed by Thomas Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell, and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle Temple gate in Fleetstreet, 1660. ESTC No. R16902. Grub Street ID 64709.
  • Cabala, sive Scrinia sacra, mysteries of state and government: in letters of illustrious persons and great ministers of state as well forreign as domestick, in the reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Q: Elizabeth, K: James, and K: Charles: wherein such secrets of empire, and publick affairs, as were then in agitation, are clearly represented; and many remarkable passages faithfully collected. Formerly in two volumns. To which is added several choice letters and negotiations, no where else published. Now collected and printed together in one volumn. With two exact tables, the one of the letters, and the other of things most observable. London: printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, M:DC:LXIII. [1663]. ESTC No. R17393. Grub Street ID 67273.
  • Wilson, John. The cheats· A comedy· Written in the year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. London: printed [by Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead?] for G. Bedell, and T. Collins, at the Middle-Temple-Gate; and Cha. Adams at the Talbott, over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1664. ESTC No. R12233. Grub Street ID 60442.