John Clarke (fl. 1697–1723)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 2465

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Names

  • John Clarke
  • John Clark

John Clarke or Clark, bookseller and publisher (1697–1723); at the Bible / Bible and Crown in the Old Change; at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry, near Cheapside. Succeeded in 1729 by his former apprentice Richard Hett. Specialized in Dissenting literature.

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

CLARK, or CLARKE (JOHN), bookseller in London, (i) Bible in the Old Exchange, or, Bible in the Old Exchange, near St. Paul's; (2) Bible and Crown in the Old Exchange; (3) Bible and Crown in the Poultry, near Cheapside. 1697–1723. Publisher of divinity and also of the translation of Le Clerc's Life of John Locke, 1705. [T.C. III. 481.]