Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-370) and indexes.
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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.
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Appendix 1. Curll's WillAppendix 2. Curll's Payments to Authors; Notes; Index of Curll's Publication; General Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Title
Edmund Curll, bookseller.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Curll, Edmund,1675-1747.
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744.
Curll, Edmund,1675-1747.
Pope, Alexander,1688-1744.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Booksellers and bookselling-- England-- History-- 18th century.
Booksellers and bookselling-- England, Biography.
Booksellers and bookselling.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
England.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.