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Autore |
Baines Paul <1961-> |
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Titolo |
Edmund Curll, bookseller [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Baines and Pat Rogers |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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9786611164829 |
1-281-16482-8 |
0-19-153535-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (399 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Booksellers and bookselling - England |
Booksellers and bookselling - England - History - 18th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-370) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Beginnings (1683-1706); 2. In Business (1707-1710); 3. The Four Last Years of Queen Anne (1710-1714); 4. Trading Blows (1714-1716); 5. The Devil's Scout (1716-1718); 6. Curlicism Displayed (1717-1720); 7. Antiquities and Politics (1717-1722); 8. Trials (1722-1728); 9. Tribulations (1726-1728); 10. The Dunciad (1728-1730); 11. Going it Alone (1728-1732); 12. Covent Garden Drollery (1732-1734); 13. Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence (1734-1736); 14. Gold from Dirt (1737-1742); 15. Closing the Books (1741-1747); Afterword |
Appendix 1. Curll's WillAppendix 2. Curll's Payments to Authors; Notes; Index of Curll's Publication; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Edmund Curll (1683-1747) was 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 is the first full scholarly biography of his life, and gives a lively, unbiased, and accurate account |
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