03384nam 2200637Ia 450 991046563480332120200520144314.097866111648291-281-16482-80-19-153535-4(CKB)2560000000296088(EBL)415259(OCoLC)437093328(SSID)ssj0000144020(PQKBManifestationID)11139902(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000144020(PQKBWorkID)10120050(PQKB)10030100(StDuBDS)EDZ0000023512(MiAaPQ)EBC415259(Au-PeEL)EBL415259(CaPaEBR)ebr10167546(CaONFJC)MIL116482(EXLCZ)99256000000029608820070425d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEdmund Curll, bookseller[electronic resource] /Paul Baines and Pat RogersOxford Clarendon Press ;Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (399 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-927898-9 0-19-170000-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-370) and indexes.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); AfterwordAppendix 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; YEdmund 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 Booksellers and booksellingEnglandBiographyBooksellers and booksellingEnglandHistory18th centuryElectronic books.Booksellers and booksellingBooksellers and booksellingHistory070.5092381.45002092Baines Paul1961-846566Rogers Pat1938-168605MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465634803321Edmund Curll, bookseller1891579UNINA