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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465634803321

Autore

Baines Paul <1961->

Titolo

Edmund Curll, bookseller [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Baines and Pat Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

9786611164829

1-281-16482-8

0-19-153535-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RogersPat <1938->

Disciplina

070.5092

381.45002092

Soggetti

Booksellers and bookselling - England

Booksellers and bookselling - England - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-370) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



of Curll's varied and distinctive publishing output. - ;Edmund Curll was a notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century: for his boldness, his lack of scruple, his publication of work without author's consent, and his taste for erotic and scandalous publications. He was in legal trouble on several