Henry Clements (d. 1719; fl. 1703–1719)

CLEMENTS (HENRY), bookseller in London, Half-Moon, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1707–19. It is not clear whether this bookseller was not identical with the bookseller at Oxford of the same name, as the name appears twice in the proposals for printing Corpus Omnium Veterum Poetarutn Latinorum in 1709, once for London and once for Oxford. [T.C. Ill. 656.] Mr. Arber refers to the London man as "the younger". Clements succeeded T. Bennet at the Half-Moon in 1707, and became the publisher of many important books, such as Isaac Littlebury's translation of Herodotus in 1708, Dr. William King's Miscellanies, 1709, Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 1717, and Bibliotheca
Biblica, 1717. With Samuel Keble he was appointed printer of the Votes of the House of Commons. He died August 23rd, 1719, when W. and John Innys stated at the end of a catalogue of their publications that they had secured most of the books printed by Mr. Henry Clements "lately deceased". [B.M. 121. i. I. (18).]

CLEMENTS, H. Succeeded T. Bennet at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Churchyard in 1709, and continued to publish there until his death on Aug. 23, 1719. A short list of his publications appears in the Postman for March 7, 1710. On his death his stock was acquired by W. and J. Innys.

—Frederick T. Wood, 1 August 1931

CLEMENTS, H. (clxi. 78). The stock of ''Henry Clements, deceased'' was sold by auction, 14 March, 1720.

—Ambrose Heal, 13 February 1932