John Bell (1745-1831) was an English publisher who was described by the author as a 'mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers'. 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.
John Bell (1745 1831) was an English publisher who was described by the author as a 'mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers'.