John Noon (1680–1763; fl. 1708–1763)

NOON, JOHN. Dates for this bookseller can be found before 1749. His name appears amongst the publishers of books which were reviewed in 'The Works of the Learned,' 1737–43 ('N. & Q.' 6 S. ii, 141). Hilton Price gives him at the White Hart, near Mercers' Chapel, Cheapside. between those dates and several of his advertisements appeared in London Evening Post during the year 1747. The latest advertisement of his which I have record of is dated 1760 when he was at the White Hart in the Poultry. He seems to have confined his publications to works of a religious character. The stock of John Noon, deceased was sold by auction 10 Feb., 1763. In the list of publishers, 1737–43 (see above) occur the names of Noon and Gray in the Poultry. Hilton Price records a Mr. Noon, seller of lamp clocks at the White Hart in the Poultry, in 1731.

—Ambrose Heal, 14 November 1931

NOON (J.), bookseller and publisher in London, White Hart, near Mercer's Chapel in Cheapside, 1726(?)–1763. Publisher of theological and philosophical works He advertised The Examination of Mr. Barclay's Principles in 1726. [London Journal, December 2nd, 1726.] At the end of Moses Lowman's Appendix to a Dissertation on the Civil Government of the Hebrews, issued in 1741, is a list of books printed for J. Noon, consisting of nine items, all theological. In 1747 he published a Life of Thomas Chubb, the Freethinker, and in 1751 C. Bulkley's Vindication of Shaftesbury. He was the publisher of teh writings of the Rev. John Jackson, Rector of Sessay, a noted controversialist. As a set off to so much theology, Noon, is found associated with Andrew Millar in publishing An Account of the Behaviour of Mr. James Maclaine, who was executed on October 3rd, 1750. [Winship.] Noon died January 18th, 1763, aged 83.