Francis Clay (fl. 1718–1738)
Francis Clay, bookseller (1718–38) at the Bible & Star without Temple Bar; at the Bible without Temple Bar.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)
CLAY (F.), bookseller in London, Bible without Temple Bar, 1721–35. Publisher of ladies' novels by Penelope Aubin, Aphra Behn, Madame d'Aulnoy, and others. [Esdaile, pp. 155, 160, 255, &c.]
Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)
CLAY, F. A bookseller without Temple Bar. Fl. 1718–1735.
—Frederick T. Wood, 1 August 1931
CLAY, F. A fuller description and address can be supplied for this bookseller—Francis Clay at The Bible (or sometimes The Bible and Star) without Temple Bar, where he is found as early as 1716.
—Ambrose Heal, 5 September 1931