A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Clarke (John)

by Henry Robert Plomer

CLARKE (JOHN), bookseller in London, (1) Under St. Peter's Church in Cornhill; (2) Entring into Mercers' Chappell at the lower end of Cheapside; (3) Under Creechurch. 1620–69. Took up his freedom March 23rd, 1619/20. [Arber, iii. 685.] Dealt almost entirely in theological literature. Smyth records his death in the Obituary (p. 82), 29th July, 1669; "Old John Clark, Bookseller under Creechurch (once in Cornhill), my old acquaintance, died this day, plenus dierum et senii infirmitatum." A catalogue of 61 books, all theological, on sale by him in 1652 is given at the end of a work entitled Sacred Principles Services and Soliloquies, 1652.