Includes bibliographical references (pages 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); Afterword.
Appendix 1. Curll's WillAppendix 2. Curll's Payments to Authors; Notes; Index of Curll's Publication; General Index.
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Edmund Curll was a 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 biography of his life gives an account of his varied and distinctive publishing output.
Edmund Curll, bookseller.
Curll, Edmund,1675-1747.
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744.
Curll, Edmund,1675-1747.
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744.
Booksellers and bookselling-- England-- History-- 18th century.
Booksellers and bookselling-- England, Biography.
Booksellers and bookselling.
England.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.