Bertram Dobell

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Dobell, Bertram (1842–1914), bookseller and literary scholar

"....As a bookseller Dobell published some 250 catalogues of books and manuscripts, his footnotes giving the catalogues their special flavour. His various catalogues devoted to books printed for private circulation remain useful bibliographical tools because of his annotations.....As an editor Dobell was responsible for editions of James Thomson, Shelley, Goldsmith, Strode, and others, but he is chiefly remembered for correctly identifying Thomas Traherne as the author of Poetical Works and Centuries of Meditation when their anonymous manuscripts were wrongly attributed to Henry Vaughan. A number of these edited works appeared over Dobell's own imprint." (Rota, Anthony. “Dobell, Bertram (1842–1914).” Anthony Rota In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online ed., edited by Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Accessed July 13, 2015. www.oxforddnd.com).