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John Bell (1745–1831) was an English publisher. ==Life== His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses ''Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'', which rivalled Samuel Johnson's ''Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets'' (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, at a time when similar volumes usually cost multiple times that. The drawings and illustrations with which Bell adorned his publications influenced later publishers, as did his abandonment of the long s. Most notable, perhaps, was Bell's joint-stock organisation of his publishing company, which defied "the trade" – forty dominant publishing companies – to establish a monopoly on the best publications. In addition to the immense ''Poets of Great Britain'', Bell also published similar volumes on ''Shakespeare'' and ''The British Theatre'', as well as the Sunday newspaper ''Bell's Weekly Messenger'', women's magazine ''La Belle Assemblée'', and other periodicals. He also ran a circulating library. He died in Fulham in 1831. He was the uncle of Edward Bell. He was a "mischievous spirit, the very Puck (Shakespeare) of booksellers." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Bell (publisher)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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