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Edmund Curll at Work: Publishing Strategies in Eighteenth-Century England
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ISBN10: 100974898X
ISBN13: 9781009748988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 16 2026
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781009748988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 16 2026
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Edmund Curll is traditionally considered a pornographer, remembered for having been condemned to gaol and the pillory. Here, Pat Rogers looks beyond this ignominious reputation to focus on the specifics of Curll's working methods as a publisher, his relations with the book trade, his sometimes anomalous position with regard to the milieu of Grub Street, his marketing strategies, and his repertoire of misleading bibliographic tricks. In doing so he throws new light on the factors underlying his quarrels with authors, who included Swift, Pope, and Defoe, alongside many others. Also revealed are Curll's previously unexplored dealings with the politics of the City of London, and his complex uses of anonymity. New biographic data and fuller bibliographical enquiries provide the basis for a more reliable documentation of the shape of his extraordinary, if questionable, activity within the context of the eighteenth-century print world.
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