Joshua Kirton

Joshua Kirton was an English bookseller and publisher, 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.[1] His London business in Paul's Churchyard[2] was destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire of London.[3]

Kirton's notable clients included Samuel Pepys.[3]

References

1. 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
2. Pepys, Samuel (2001). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 10: Companion. U of California P. pp. 35–36. ISBN 9780520227156. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
3. 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.