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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 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.
“Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher.”—Leo Damrosch, author of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age “What sets Rogers’s history apart is his ability to combine fastidious research with lucid, unpretentious prose. History buffs and literary-minded readers alike are in for a punchy, drama-filled treat.”—Publishers Weekly The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and without restraint. However, it has never, until now, been chronicled in full. Ripe with the sights and smells of Hanoverian London, The Poet and Publisher details their vitriolic exchanges, drawing on previously unearthed pamphlets, newspaper articles, and advertisements, court and government records, and personal letters. The story of their battles in and out of print includes a poisoning, the pillory, numerous instances of fraud, and a landmark case in the history of copyright. The book is a forensic account of events both momentous and farcical, and it is indecently entertaining.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... the Lives, Characters, &c. of Men of this Stamp, than I can pretend to he, I would not willingly anticipate a Thing that will imake so great a Figure, in all Probability, one Time or other, in his full and true Accounts." In place of this, however, we will give some particulars as to his " whereabouts" at different periods of his varied career. As a Bookseller, his frequent changes of residence, as shown on the title-pages of his various publications, would seem to indicate that, with all his tricks and ingenuity, he was by no means a successful tradesman. 1708. This is the earliest date at which we have met with Curll's name on a title-page. A translation ofBoileau'sLutrin was published in 1708, among others by " E. Sanger and . Curll, at the Post House at the Middle Temple Gate, and at the Peacock without Temple Bar." 1709. Muscimda was published by him, "ad insigne ravonis extra Temple Bar." 1710. We find him removed to the premises formerly occupied by the well-known bookseller A. Bosvill; for A Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub, &c. was "printed for Edmund Curll, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street." Here he remained certainly until 1718; but in 1720, we find him removed to Paternoster Row; where, in that year, he appears to have published Jacob's Lives of the Poets. 1723 shows another removal, for in that year Nichols (Lit. Anec. iv. 273.) states that he lived " over against Catherine Street in the Strand," and ne was living there in 1726, when he published Ashmole's Order of the Garter. In 1728 he is still described on title-pages as "in the Strand;" but Mrs. Thomas speaks of him in 1729 as living "next to Will's Coffee House, in Bow Street, Covent Garden;" and that is the place of publication...