John Darby (printer)

John Darby
Died	1704
Occupation	Printer

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 from 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. Lynch, Beth. "Darby, John (d. 1704), printer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67087.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

References

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