John Darby (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]

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

Notes

Hone, Joseph (2021). "John Darby and the Whig Canon". The Historical Journal: 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0018246X20000606. ISSN 0018-246X.
Worden, p. 86.
Worden, p. 87.
"Darby, John (d. 1704), printer | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". www.oxforddnb.com. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67087. Retrieved 6 December 2018.

References

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

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[1] Hone, Joseph (2021). "John Darby and the Whig Canon". The Historical Journal: 1–24. 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". www.oxforddnb.com. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67087. Retrieved 6 December 2018.