1864: Acquired 4 York Street,
Covent Garden. This location had quite a pedigree: The previous occupant of these houses was the publishing company of
Henry George Bohn; before that they had belonged to the bookseller
J.H. Bohte, who specialized in classics; and before that (though not immediately before), they had been the home of
Thomas de Quincey.[1]
Edward Bell, George Bell, Publisher: A Brief Memoir, London: Printed for private circulation by the Chiswick Press, 1924.
Marjory Long, "George Bell and Sons", in: Patricia J. Anderson and Jonathan Rose, eds., Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 106: British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1880, Detroit and London: Gale, 1991, pp. 22-31.