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	§23. Curll and Grub Street. XIV. Book Production and Distribution, 1625–1800. Vol. 11. The Period of the ...
		Curll’s connection with the issue of Court Poems (1716) 19 led to his first encounter with Pope, and he afterwards made ignoble appearance in The Dunciad; later, these two were concerned in the talpine proceedings connected with the publication of the 1735 volume of Pope’s Correspondence.
		Curll’s personal appearance, vividly sketched by Amory, was as unprepossessing as his cast of mind.
		“Edmund Curll,” he says, 20 “was in person very tall and thin, an ungainly, awkward, white-faced man. His eyes were a light-grey, large, projecting, goggle, and pur-blind.
	www.bartleby.com /221/1423.html (1093 words)

	Edmund Curll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swift was angry at Curll for revealing his authorship of the works (as Swift was ascending in the Church of England), but he was also amused at the dullness of Curll's explication of his works.
		Curll's entire goal was to be the first to the shops with a biography and not in any way to be the best or most accurate account.
		Curll's response was to print a pirate edition, then to produce a "Key" to the poem to explain all the people Pope attacked, and then to publish reply poems that were attacks on Pope personally.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Curll (2198 words)

	Edmund Curll -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edmund Curll (1675 - December 11, 1747) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English bookseller and publisher.
		He was notorious for commissioning (additional info and facts about hack-written) hack-written biographies of famous people as soon as they died, and publishing them without regard for inaccuracies and inventions.
		Perhaps the reference to Curll most often repeated by posterity is (additional info and facts about John Arbuthnot) John Arbuthnot's quip that Curll's biographies had become "one of the new terrors of death" (quoted in Robert Carruthers, The Poetical Works of Pope, 1853, vol.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ed/Edmund_Curll.htm (373 words)

	edmund curll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His connexion with the anonymously-published Court Poems in 1716 led to the long quarrel with Alexander Pope, who took his revenge by immortalizing Curll in the Dunciad.
		In his forty years of business Curll published a great variety of books, of which a very large number, fortunately, were quite free from "Curlicisms." A list of his publications contains, indeed, 167 standard works.
		For Curll's relations with Pope, see the Life of Pope, by Sir Leslie Stephen in the English Men of Letters series.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /edmund_curll.html (335 words)

	CURLL - LoveToKnow Article on CURLL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His connection with the anonymously-published Court Poems in 1716 led to the long quarrel with Pope, who took his revenge by immortalizing CurlI in the Dunciad.
		It has since been proved that thepublication was really instigated by Pope, who wanted an excuse to print his letters, as he actuallydid (1737-1741).
		Inhisfortyyearsof business Curll published a great variety of books, of which a very large number, fortunately, were quite free from Curlicisms.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CURLL.htm (266 words)

	Edmund Curll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Curll became notorious for hisindecent publications, so much so that "Curlicism" was regarded as a synonym for literary indecency.
		In 1725 he was convicted of publishing obscene books, and fined in 1728 for publishing The Nun in herSmock and De Usu Flagrorum, while his Memories of John Ker of Kersland cost him an hour in the pillory.
		When Curll in 1735 announced the forthcoming publication of "Mr Pope's LiteraryCorrespondence," his stock, at Pope's instigation, was seized.
	www.therfcc.org /edmund-curll-117216.html (279 words)

	Booksellers
		Curll is one of the most infamous booksellers of the eighteenth century.
		Curll got down on his knees and somehow managed to convince the Lord Chancellor to let him go, and he received a mere fine for his crime.
		Curll was fond of a drink quite often, which ultimately led to his death.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/print_culture/sellers.html (930 words)

	John Arbuthnot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In his mid-life, Arburthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll and Charles Gildon, among others, who would commission and invent a biography as soon as an author died, said, "Biography is one of the new terrors of death," and so a biography of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records.
		In 1705, Arbuthnot became physician extraordinary to Queen Anne, and at the same time was put on the board trying to publish the Historia coelestius.
		Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley wanted it published immediately, to support their work on orbits, while John Flamsteed, the Royal Astronomer whose observations they were, wanted to keep the data secret until he had perfected it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Arbuthnot (2316 words)

	A Tale of a Tub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edmund Curll rushed out a Key to the work, and William Wotton offered up an "Answer" to the author of the work.
		He attacks criticism generally, and he appeared to be delighted by the fact that one of his enemies, William Wotton, had offered to explain the Tale in an "answer" to the book and that one of the men he had explicitly attacked, Curll, had offered to explain the book to the public.
		Francis Atterbury said people at Oxford thought it had been written by Edmund Smith and John Philips, though he thought it was by Jonathan Swift.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Tale_of_a_Tub (4608 words)

	Edmund Curll
		After being apprenticed to an Exeter bookseller he came to London and started business on his own account, advertising himself by a system of newspaper quarrels.
		When Curll in 1735 announced the forthcoming publication of Mr.
		It has since been proved that the publication was really instigated by Pope, who wanted an excuse to print his letters, as he actually did (1737-41).
	www.nndb.com /people/183/000095895 (245 words)

	Rare Books and Special Collections: Restoration Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This edition, issued in 1735, is distinguished amongst the other editions of Pope's letters published in that year by NOT being issued by Edmund Curll.
		These two titles were published by Edmund Curll, who was a Grub Street printer notorious for on occasion creating and publishing fictional correspondence, wills, and memoirs, as well as for his ongoing feud with Pope.
		Curll is singled out in the Dunciad for his publication practices.
	www.niulib.niu.edu /rbsc/restorationlit.htm (1524 words)

	Benedict: Making the Modern Reader - Chapter Three: DISCRIMINATING READERS IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
		Edmund Curll's relative and associate Henry, for example, issued a miscellany of nine lewd pamphlets, adorned with a fine frontispiece and central illustration, called The Altar of Love.
		Henry Curll as editor thus uses the principle of juxtaposition to prompt readers to judge authors and literary principles.
		Curll is so great a Master of this, that I don't wonder at his falling under the Resentment of such People as intended to make a Monopoly of it" (3).
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /books/benedict/chapter_3.html (13852 words)

	Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville eBook by BookRags
		Curll’s account is that they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster Hall on the last day of the trial of the Jacobite Lord Winton.
		Curll was an excellent publicity agent for his wares.
		Pope was furious, and there is a story that he invited Curll to drink wine with him at a coffee-house, and put in his glass some poison that acted as an emetic.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/10590/69.html (454 words)

	College Literature: Rowe's Shakespear (1709) and the Tonson House Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a bold instance of piracy, publishers Edmund Curll and Egbert Sanger challenged Lintot and Tonson, the period's two most powerful publishers, by exploiting both their projects.
		Curll and Sanger pirated Lintot's edition and claimed their impression to be volume seven of Rowe's Shakespear.
		Tonson, along with his erstwhile antagonists Curll, Pemberton, and Sanger, published a duodecimo edition that included both the plays and the poems to coincide with the theatrical release of Rowe's play.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_200407/ai_n9426991/pg_5 (1488 words)

	Loughborough University
		Until recently, Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731) was dismissed as a sort of literary trollop, associated with the supposedly 'low' publications of 'the unspeakable' Edmund Curll - Pope's antagonist - and memorialised in The Dunciad as 'Curll's Corinna', one among the many 'common nuisances' that poem attacks.
		In fact, there is no evidence that Thomas was anything other than a literary gentlewoman living with her widowed mother in Bloomsbury, haunting bookshops, and dreaming of fame as a poet and critic.
		The assumption that such women were considered scandalous - whether for having lovers and babies, or for publishing their writings - was an invention of a later era, telling us more about what 'literature' was coming to mean than about the lived experiences of women writers.
	www.lboro.ac.uk /departments/ea/longrestoration/Panels/Panel13/Panel13.htm (617 words)

	Obrien Article
		In our class, Curll sued Pope for libel and defamation of character, and the students, separated into rival teams representing the plaintiff and the defendant, prepared briefs fisr their chosen client.
		It's easy for us to see that Curll was acting without "authority" by printing poems, letters, and other material he had neither paid not received permission for.
		One student took the part of Pope, one student played Curll, one student served as each of their attorneys, and one student was cast as an expert witness for each side.
	asecs.press.jhu.edu /obrien.html (2767 words)

	CURLL, EDMUND (1675-1747) - Online Information article about CURLL, EDMUND (1675-1747)
		CURLL, EDMUND (1675-1747) - Online Information article about CURLL, EDMUND (1675-1747)
		Pope, who took his revenge by immortalizing Curll in the Dunciad.
		Curll became notorious for his indecent publications, so much so that " Curlicism " was regarded as a synonym for See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CRE_DAH/CURLL_EDMUND_1675_1747_.html (380 words)

	The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
		Curll's Shop, and cannot say whether they were ever in Mr.
		I described the Girl to him; he said she was his Servant; that he believed I was an honest Man, and if I'd come to breakfast with him in the Morning, he'd put me to Rights; and so he took away 17 Volumes.
		And says Curll, I can't well do it, but Gibson may. Says Gibson, you have had the Books a Day and a Night in your Custody, and I can't swear now that they are the same as you took from my Shop.
	www.oldbaileyonline.org /html_units/1730s/t17320525-68.html (1658 words)

	Edmund Curll (1675 - 1747) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1725 – Edmund Curll (1683-1747) is arrested in England for publishing Venus in the Cloister [An English translation of Vénus dans le Cloître, 1683] and Meibomius's Treatise of Flogging (translation by George Sewell).
		He's fined 25 marks for each of the two erotic books and 20 marks plus one hour in the pillory for publishing Ker's memoirs.
		It is Curll's trial that leads the Court of King's Bench to define the law of obscene libel.
	www.jahsonic.com /EdmundCurll.html (388 words)

	MISCELLANEA., In two Volumes. Never before published. Viz I. Familiar Letters written to Henry Cromwell Esq; by Mr. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Volume II, dedicated to Pope, begins with three satirical essays, as listed on the title-page, and then a section of poetry, 'Swiftiana', which includes four genuine poems by Swift and one wrongly attributed to him (Teerink-Scouten 24), and one poem by Pope published here for the first time (Griffith 178).
		The last section is 'Laus Ululæ' as called for on the title-page; Curll seems to have run out of sheets of this satire, as copies are known in which it has been replaced by various pamphlets which he had printed earlier.
		Curll was constantly issuing small-format miscellanies, and in 1727 he published Whartoniana with the signatures marked Vol.
	www.polybiblio.com /quaritch/E742.html (406 words)

	University of Kansas - Kenneth Spencer Research Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1955 the Department acquired Peter Murray Hill's private collection of Edmund Curll, numbering at that time about five hundred books.
		Curll's own vitality and persistence seem to be communicated to those who study him: they continue to discover previously unknown titles at such a rapid rate that it is impossible to say what proportion of the whole is present in our collection.
		Pope, Prior, Nicholas Rowe, Oldmixon, Sacheverell and Sir Thomas Browne all appear in the Curll collection; trials, scandals, topical poems, poetical miscellanies, politics, British antiquities, travels and the classics are revealed as stock that Curll felt would move well or could be made to move by being reissued with a new and up-to-date title-page.
	spencer.lib.ku.edu /sc/18th.shtml (1285 words)

	literatory page
		The image above, which was originally published in The Grub-Street Journal for October 30, 1732, depicts the "art and mystery" of printing in what it calls the "literatory" of one Edmund Curll, a notorious printer/publisher in the period, about whom we'll be learning much more this semester.
		By "literatory," it seems to mean a kind of factory for the production of texts, a workshop where literature is the product more of mechanism than inspiration.
		He may not have taken a leading role in the journal, but they were frequently invoking his spirit.
	faculty.virginia.edu /enec311/literatory.html (1442 words)

	trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We will be trying a civil case, as the bookseller-publisher Edmund Curll sues Alexander Pope for libel and defamation of character.
		This did not happen in "real life"--in fact, Pope generally got the better of their conflict over the years, and has certainly gotten the better of their feud in the eyes of literary history, which is generally a lot more sympathetic to him than to Curll.
		But Pope was no angel, and it's often useful to imagine an alternative history, one where something entirely different from the historical record happened.
	faculty.virginia.edu /enec311/trial.html (209 words)

	Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1739 she left her husband and went to live on the Continent.
		Her Town Eclogues (1747), which gives an entertaining picture of contemporary manners, was first published by Edmund Curll in a pirated edition in 1716.
		She is remembered for her quarrel with Pope, who had once been her ardent admirer and who attacked her viciously in his poetry.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/MontaguM.html (213 words)

	curll edmund - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word curll edmund:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "curll edmund" is defined.
		CURLL, EDMUND : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	public.onelook.com /?w=curll+edmund (73 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Joyce - the juice
		The pioneer publisher of dead writers' letters was the 18th-century pornographer Edmund Curll.
		Often, only a few days after a man of letters had passed away, his private writings would be published in an instant biography.
		Ever since Curll, any writer with a hold on posterity has been likely to sacrifice after death any privacy that he or she enjoyed before it.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1255034,00.html (892 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Account of the life and writings of the life and writings of Mr John Locke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a new BCI B&W reprint of the original on acid-free paper, print on demand copy, photographs don't reproduce perfectly, both softbound and hardbound editions are available, copyright cleared by UMI, special order, 4 - 6 week delivery.
		To this has been added, various bits and pieces which the "unspeakable" Edmund Curll was in the habit of seeking out from relatives and acquaintances of recently deceased celebrities; included are three early poems by Isaac Watts.
		Bound without a half-title, otherwise a very good copy; the half-title is not present in many of the recorded copies, and may well not have been issued with them.
	textbook.abebooks.com /Title/27157/Account+of+the+life+and+writings+of+the+life+and+writings+of+Mr+John+Locke.html (594 words)

	Not So Bad As We Seem
		Why, I have mimick'd Curll so exactly that Pope himself was deceived, and, stifling with rage, ordered me out of the room.
		Curll shall call upon Fallen the first thing in the morning and outbid Mr.
		is not that the tyrannical sneak, Edmund Curll?--
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