Publications of Robert 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 Robert Bell

  • Dodsley, Robert. The oeconomy of human life. In two parts. Translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered. In two letters from an English gentleman now residing in China, to the Earl of ***. To which is added, an Appendix to the true Oeconomy of human life. In a letter to the Earl of Chesterfield. [Glasgow]: Printed at Glasgow, M,DCC,LXV. Dublin: sold by Robert Bell, [1765]. ESTC No. T82523. Grub Street ID 303098.

Sold by Robert Bell

  • Priestley, Joseph. An appeal to the serious and candid professors of Christianity. On the following subjects. I. The use of reason in matters of religion. II. The power of man to do the will of God. III. Original sin. IV. Election and reprobation. V. The divinity of Christ, and VI. Atonement for sin by the death of Christ. By Joseph Priestly [sic], L.L.D. F.R.S. and a lover of the Gospel. To which are added, a concise history of the rise of those doctrines: and The triumph of truth; being an account of the trial of Mr. E. Elwall, for heresy and blasphemy, at Stafford Assizes [Two lines of Scripture texts]. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]. ESTC No. W11674. Grub Street ID 320888.

Printed for Robert Bell

  • Donaldson, Alexander. Some thoughts on the state of literary property, humbly submitted to the consideration of the public. ... [Dublin]: London: printed for Alexander Donaldson. Dublin: reprinted for Robert Bell, [1767]. ESTC No. N23851. Grub Street ID 13211.