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Autore: | Baines Paul <1961-> |
Titolo: | Edmund Curll, bookseller [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Baines and Pat Rogers |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina: | 070.5092 |
381.45002092 | |
Soggetto topico: | Booksellers and bookselling - England |
Booksellers and bookselling - England - History - 18th century | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | RogersPat <1938-> |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Edmund Curll, bookseller |
ISBN: | 9786611164829 |
1-281-16482-8 | |
0-19-153535-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465634803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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