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" Edmund Curll, bookseller / "
Paul Baines and Pat Rogers.
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BL
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1015554
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b769924
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| Main Entry
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Baines, Paul,1961-
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| Title & Author
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Edmund Curll, bookseller /\ Paul Baines and Pat Rogers.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (x, 388 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0191535354
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: 0191700002
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: 1281164828
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: 6611164820
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: 9780191535352
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: 9780191700002
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: 9781281164827
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: 9786611164829
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0199278989
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9780199278985
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-370) and indexes.
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| Contents
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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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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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Curll, Edmund,1675-1747.
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Pope, Alexander,1688-1744.
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Curll, Edmund,1675-1747.
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Pope, Alexander,1688-1744.
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Booksellers and bookselling-- England, Biography.
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Booksellers and bookselling-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Booksellers and bookselling.
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England.
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Dewey Classification
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070.5092
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| LC Classification
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Z325.C96B35 2007eb
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Rogers, Pat,1938-
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