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Edmund Curll, bookseller /

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Edmund Curll was a one-man publishing firm, a figure notorious in his day and something of a comic figure ever since thanks to his enmity with Alexander Pope. This biography of his life gives an account of his varied and distinctive publishing output.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Baines, Paul, 1961-
Other Authors:	Rogers, Pat, 1938-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Curll, Edmund, > 1675-1747. Curll, Edmund > Biographie. Curll, Edmund. 1700-1799 Booksellers and bookselling > England > Biography. Booksellers and bookselling > England > History > 18th century. Bokhandlare > historia > England > 1700-talet. Booksellers and bookselling. England. Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Biographies. Biography. History.
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