John Clarke (d. 1746)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 1412

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

John Clarke, bookseller at the Golden Ball in Duck Lane (1723–41); Michael Treadwell notes that he moved to St. Paul's Churchyard in 1742 and seems to have been succeeded by William Johnston after his death in 1746 (Research Notes). He was a wholesaler, and one of the proprietors of the London Magazine. The John Clarke at the Bible under the Royal Exchange who was probably the Master of the Stationers' Company in 1760 seems to be a different person.

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

CLARKE, JOHN. Of the Golden Ball in Duck Lane, may be added to the list. He succeeded to the business of M. and N. Boddington at this address and is found there from 1724 to 1743.

—Ambrose Heal, 5 September 1931

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)

CLARK, or CLARKE (JOHN), bookseller and publisher in London, (1) Duck Lane; (2) Bible under the Royal Exchange. 1697–1760. See Dictionary, 1668–1725. May have been identical with John Clarke, publisher in the Old [or Royal] Exchange. In the London Journal of January 3rd, 1726, he advertised The Compleat Clerk in Court, and in 1728, in partnership with others, New Principles of Gardening. [Daily Post, January 3rd.] In 1751 he published the Rev. W. Webster's Two Sermons upon the Sabbath [B.M. 225. g. 9 (3)], and in 1753 he joined with the Rivingtons in An Impartial Examination of Bishop Burnet's History [Public Advertiser, January 5th]. Master of the Company of Stationers in 1760 [Arber, lxviii]. See also Hett, R.