Andrew Clark (fl. 1670–1678)

CLARK (ANDREW), printer in London, Aldersgate Street, 1670–8. In 1670 he, with E. Cotes, printed for Henry Brome The History of the Duke of Espernon. [Haz. i. 147.] He was also the printer of the Term Catalogue of Hil. 167⁴/₅ [T.C. I. 202], and he is mentioned in the 1675 list of printers in London [S.P.D. Car. II. vol. 369, 97], but his name rarely appeared in an imprint except in the form of the initials A.C. He is last mentioned in the Term Catalogue of Easter 1677 [T.C. I. 279], but he published in 1678 The Death and Burial of Mistress Money, sold by T. Vere and J. Clarke. [Pepys 363 (563); Haz. I. 492.] Nichols records that he succeeded James Flesher as printer to the City of London in 1672, and that in 1679 Samuel Roycroft was appointed to that office. [Lit. Anecd. ill. 571.] In 1675 he printed a news sheet called The City Mercury or Advertisements concerning Trade. [Burney 75 A.] Clark died about 1677 or 1678, and was succeeded by his widow Mary (q.v.).