Little is known of Henry Dell, who wrote or adapted four plays and published a poem on London booksellers. He is said to have died very poor.
TEXT RECORDS:
1761A Fragment.
1762Verses written at Dunwich, in Suffolk.
PUBLICATIONS:
Minorca. A tragedy. 1756.
The mirrour. A comedy. 1756.
The spouter, or the double revenge: a comic farce. 1756.
The frenchified lady never in Paris, taken from Dryden and Colley Cibber, Poets Laureat. 1757.
The booksellers. A Poem. 1766.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
education not known
poet
dramatist
book trade
Public Ledger
Royal Magazine
REFERENCE:
DNB; not NCBEL.
Biographia Dramatica (1812); John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812-15).
COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Henry Dell:
1. | 1766 Anonymous, Review of Dell, The Booksellers, a Poem; The Monthly Review 34 (June 1766) 481. |
2. | 1842 C. H. Timperley, in Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote (1842) 2:750n. |
BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Henry Dell:
1. | 1782 Isaac Reed, in Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse (1782) 1:120-21. |
2. | 1812 John Nichols, in Literary Anecdotes of the XVIII Century (1812-15) 3:641n. |
AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)
1. | 1757 Thomas Randolph: Henry Dell, Advertisement to The Mirrour. A Comedy (1757) i-ii. |