Andrew Bell

BELL (ANDREW), bookseller in London, (i) Pestle and Mortar over against the Horseshoe Tavern in Chancery Lane; (2) Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near the Stocks Market. 1694–1715. First appears as publisher, in partnership with Jonas Luntley, of Sir George Mackenzie's The Institutions oj the Laws of Scotland, 1694. [Haz. II. 376.] His connexion with Luntley was brief, as in the following year he published alone Considerations on the Trade to Newfoundland. [Haz. III. 174.] Bell's first entry in the Term Catalogues occurs in Hil. 1697 as one of the publishers of Tyrrell's History of England. [T.C. III. 4], and from that time until 1711 his name occurs frequently as a miscellaneous publisher. In 1702 Dunton [p. 195] sold him the copyright of The Athenian Oracle, and in 1707 he started a monthly quarto of poems, songs, &c., entitled The Muse's Mercury. Bell was also the publisher of the monthly critical journal, The Works of the Learned, and was agent for the Edinburgh booksellers, A. Sympson and R. Freebairn; for the latter he entered in Stat. Reg., March 26th, 1715, The Rudiments of the Latin Tongue, by T. Ruddiman. [Timperley, p. 607.]