Simon Neale

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 38483

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Names

  • Simon Neale
  • Simon Neal

Simon Neal, bookseller, 1674–1694; at the Three Piggeons in Bedford Street / in Covent Garden / over against the New-Exchange, 1674–1687; over against the Duke of Grafton's Head in Grafton Street, near Leicester Fields, 1688; at Angel Court, St. Martin's Lane, near the Church, 1687–1691; in the Long Walk, near Little Britain, 1691–4.

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

NEAL (SIMON), bookseller in London, (1) Three Piggeons in Bedford Street, (a) in Covent Garden, (b) over against the New-Exchange, 1674–87; (2) Angel Court, St. Martin's Lane, near the Church, 1687–91; (3) in the Long Walk, near Little Britain, 1691–4. 1674–94. Published several plays and romances as well as some historical works. He also dealt in cheap manuals of devotion and Church politics; but his output is of a secular character to an extent very unusual for the time. His first and last entries in the Term Catalogue are in 1674 and 1694. [T.C. 1. 163, n. 527.]