02825nam 2200481Ia 450 991082187160332120240418142139.097801915353520191535354(MiAaPQ)EBC7034430(CKB)24235095900041(MiAaPQ)EBC415259(Au-PeEL)EBL415259(CaPaEBR)ebr10167546(CaONFJC)MIL116482(OCoLC)437093328(EXLCZ)992423509590004120070425d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEdmund Curll, bookseller[electronic resource] /Paul Baines and Pat Rogers1st ed.Oxford Clarendon Press ;Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press2007x, 388 p. ill., mapsIncludes bibliographical references (p. [324]-370) and indexes.Intro -- 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 Will -- Appendix 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.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.Booksellers and booksellingEnglandBiographyBooksellers and booksellingEnglandHistory18th centuryBooksellers and booksellingBooksellers and booksellingHistory070.5092Baines Paul1961-1691012Rogers Pat1938-168605MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910821871603321Edmund Curll, bookseller4121666UNINA