Portal:George Bell and Sons
Appearance
Publisher, United Kingdom. Founded in 1839. Between 1856 and 1873 named Bell and Daldy.
Publications
[edit]Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz, by Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic, transl. by Albert Henry Wratislaw, 1862
Diary of an embassy from King George of Bohemia to King Louis XI of France in the year of grace 1464 by Jaroslav, transl. by Albert Henry Wratislaw, 1871
A Dictionary of Artists of the English School by Samuel Redgrave, 1878.
A hand-book to Hampton Court by Henry Cole, 1884.
The poetical works of William Blake, lyrical and miscellaneous by William Blake edited by William Michael Rossetti, 1890.
The Art of Bookbinding by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, 1890
Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages by Ernest Flagg Henderson, 1892
Picture Posters by Charles Hiatt 1896
Football: The Rugby Game by Author:Harry Vassall 1898
The poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Robinson) by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by William Heath Robinson 1900
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Wiggin, illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock 1901
- A Dictionary of Saintly Women
Volume 1,
Volume 2 by Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar, 1904, 1905.
Henry VIII and the English Monasteries by Francis Aidan Gasquet, 1888; Reprinted 1906.
Football: The Association Game by Author:Charles William Alcock, 1906
An American Girl in India by Shelland Bradley, 1907
The Pinafore Picture Book by W S Gilbert, 1908
Ruddigore by W S Gilbert, 1912
Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, 1918.
- The Complete Peerage 1st Edition, edited by Cokayne, 1887–1898. (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Purchased Bohn's Libraries from Henry G. Bohn in 1864.
Bohn's Antiquarian Library
[edit]Title | Author(s) | Translator | Year | Location | Notes |
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Gesta Romanorum (transcription project) | Unknown | Charles Swan | 1905 | London | Edited and corrected by Wynnard Hooper |
Chronicles of the Crusades | Richard of Devizes, Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Lord John de Joinville | John Allen Giles, "a classical scholar and a gentleman well read in Mediæval history", Thomas Johnes | 1908 | London | New Edition |
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | Unknown | John Allen Giles | 1914 | London | New Edition |
Bohn's Classical Library
[edit]Title | Author(s) | Translator | Year | Location | Notes |
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The Dramas of Aeschylus | Aeschylus | Anna Swanwick | 1886 | London | Fourth edition. First edition published 1865. |
The Plays of Euripides | Euripides | Edward Philip Coleridge | 1891 | London | 1910 reprinting of volume 1 and 1913 reprinting of volume 2. |
The Odyssey of Homer | Homer | Theodore William Alois Buckley | 1902 | London | Originally Published 1853. |
Bohn's Philosophical Library
[edit]Title | Author(s) | Translator | Year | Location | Notes |
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science | Immanuel Kant | Ernest Belfort Bax | 1883 | London | Revised edition. |
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature | Arthur Schopenhauer | Jessie Hillebrand | 1903 | London | Revised edition. |
Bohn's Standard Library
[edit]Title | Author(s) | Translator | Year | Location | Notes |
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The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes | Miguel de Cervantes | Walter Keating Kelly | 1881 | London | |
Grimm's Household Tales | Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm | Margaret Raine Hunt | 1884 | London | |
The Prose Tales of Alexander Poushkin | Alexander Poushkin | Thomas Keane | 1894 | London | 1916 reprinting. |
Publisher's Marks
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