Bertram Dobell (9 January 1842 – 14 December 1914) was an English bookseller, literary scholar, editor, poet, essayist and publisher.

[3] Dobell opened a newsvendor's shop in 1872;[2] he went on to become the proprietor of two bookshops in Charing Cross Road, which were well respected by contemporary book collectors.

[3] As an author, Dobell was best known for his editions of the works of Thomas Traherne (whose unpublished manuscripts he had discovered), Shelley, Goldsmith, Strode and James Thomson.

This received some praise for its satires and epigrams,[6] and contained, as well, a dozen haikai, one of the first English experiments with the recently-imported Japanese poetic form afterward known as haiku.

[7] Dobell's other books included A Century of Sonnets (1910), and the biographies Sidelights on Charles Lamb (1903) and The Laureate of Pessimism: a Sketch of the Life of James Thomson (1910).