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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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Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings (1683-1706)
  • In business (1707-1710)
  • The four last years of Queen Anne (1710-1714)
  • Trading blows (1714-1716)
  • The devil's scout (1716-1718)
  • Curlicism displayed (1717-1720)
  • Antiquities and politics (1717-1722)
  • Trials (1722-1728)
  • Tribulations (1726-1728)
  • The Dunciad (1728-1730)
  • Going it alone (1728-1732)
  • Covent Garden drollery (1732-1734)
  • Mr. Pope's literary correspondence (1734-1736)
  • Gold from dirt (1737-1742)
  • Closing the books (1741-1747)
  • Afterword
  • Appendix 1. Curll's Will
  • Appendix 2. Curll's Payments to authors
  • Index to Curll's publications.