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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 38
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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...