Henry Dell

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.