John Clarke (fl. 1736–1738)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1200

Occupations

  • Bookseller

Names

  • John Clarke
  • John Clark

John Clarke or Clark, bookseller at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street. Apprenticed to Lawton Gilliver (1728) and in partnership with him at least from 1736 to 1738.

Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)

CLARK, JOHN. He was carrying on business as a bookseller at Homer's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, in 1735, though when he first opened his shop there I have been unable to ascertain. In 1750 a John Clarke advertises from the Royal Exchange, but as the name is a fairly common one there is no certainty that this was the same person. Plomer also notices a John Clarke who was conducting a bookselling business 1697–1723 at (1) the Bible in the Old Exchange, near St. Paul's; (2) the Bible and Crown in the Old Exchange; (3) the Bible and Crown in the Poultry.

—Frederick T. Wood, 1 August 1931