George Bell (publisher)
George Bell (1814–1890) was an English publisher who founded the book publishing house George Bell & Sons.
He was the father of publisher and animal welfare campaigner, Ernest Bell.
He is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.
Location of the Bell houses
- 1839: 1 Bouverie Street
- 1840: 186 Fleet Street
- 1854: Acquired Deighton's offices at Green Street and Trinity Street, Cambridge
- 1864: Acquired 4 York Street, Covent Garden. This location had quite a pedigree: The previous occupant of these houses was the publishing company of Henry George Bohn; before that they had belonged to the bookseller J.H. Bohte, who specialized in classics; and before that (though not immediately before), they had been the home of Thomas de Quincey.[1]
- 1867: Moved out of Fleet Street
References
- ^ "Life & the Libraries". Archived from the original on 8 September 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2007.
Further reading
- Edward Bell, George Bell, Publisher: A Brief Memoir, London: Printed for private circulation by the Chiswick Press, 1924.
- Marjory Long, "George Bell and Sons", in: Patricia J. Anderson and Jonathan Rose, eds., Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 106: British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1880, Detroit and London: Gale, 1991, pp. 22-31.
External links
- Archive of George Bell & Sons Ltd in the collection of the University of Reading
- Works by George Bell at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about George Bell at Internet Archive
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