John Darby (d. 1704) was an English printer.

He was associated with the Whigs and printed many works by Whig authors.[1] These included Andrew Marvell's An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in 1677-1678 and during the rest of the Exclusion Crisis he helped keep Whig arguments in circulation.[2] Other notable works that came off his press include Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government and Edmund Ludlow's Memoirs.[3][4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Hone, Joseph (2021). "John Darby and the Whig Canon". The Historical Journal. 64 (5): 1257–1280. doi:10.1017/S0018246X20000606. ISSN 0018-246X.
  2. ↑ Worden, p. 86.
  3. ↑ Worden, p. 87.
  4. ↑ "Darby, John (d. 1704), printer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67087. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 6 December 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

References

  • Blair Worden, Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity (London: Penguin, 2001).


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