Publications of M. 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 M. Bell

  • Rowley, Alexander. Hever le-talmidim Synergos tois mathetais. Sodalis discipulis. The schollers companion, or a little library, containing all the interpretations of the Hebrew and Greek Bible, by all authors, first into the Latine. And now (with the English of every Latine word added thereunto) brought into a pocket book. Not onely for the eas of the learned, but also that the unlearned may come to the knowledge of both Testaments in the originall tongues. By A.R. Imprinted at London: by M. Bell, for William Larner at the Blackmore neere Bishopsgate, and George Whittington at the blew Anchor in Cornhill neer the Exchange, 1648. ESTC No. R203423. Grub Street ID 80520.