Roger Clavel (fl. 1695–1698)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 24024

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Roger Clavel, bookseller at the Peacock over against Fetter Lane / near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1695–1698.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

CLAVELL (ROGER), bookseller in London, Peacock near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1695–8. In the Post-Boy of September 17th-19th, 1695, is the following advertisement: "If any person has any Study of Books, or Library consisting either of Divinity, Law, History, Physick, &c., to dispose of, If they please to send a catalogue of them to Roger Clavel at the Peacock near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, they shall have the full value for them, and the cost of Carriage Paid." In 1695 he was succeeded by T. Leigh. [T.C. ii. 633.]