Joshua Kirton

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Joshua Kirton was an English bookseller and publisher. [1] [2]

He was responsible (sometimes with Thomas Warren) for the dissemination of a number of important works in the seventeenth century, including Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone . [3] His London business in Paul's Churchyard [4] was destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire of London. [5]

In 1648, he published The Right Way: a direction for obtaining good success in a weighty enterprise. [6]

He also published books of the theologian André Rivet. [2]

Kirton's notable clients included Samuel Pepys. [5] He was also the primary bookseller and publisher of Thomas Hayne. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Biography of Joshua Kirton Bookseller". ALL ABOUT HISTORY. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Straznicky, Marta (8 October 2012). Shakespeare's Stationers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 355. ISBN   978-0-8122-0738-5.
  3. ↑ Lawton, H. W. (1931), "Bishop Godwin's Man in the Moone", The Review of English Studies , 7 (25): 23–55, doi:10.1093/res/os-vii.25.23, JSTOR   508383
  4. ↑ Pepys, Samuel (2001). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 10: Companion. U of California P. pp. 35–36. ISBN   9780520227156 . Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  5. 1 2 Roberts, Julian (2002). "The Latin Trade". In John Barnard (ed.). The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain . D.F. McKenzie. Cambridge UP. pp. 141–88. ISBN   9780521661829 . Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  6. ↑ Rivera, Eric (27 February 2019). Christ Is Yours. Bellingham: Lexham Press. ISBN   978-1-68359-248-8.


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