Edmund Curll

(1675-1747)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747 DNB: Curll, Edmund (d. 1747), bookseller LBT ID: EdCurll1747 VIAF ID: 73995150 LOC ID: n85099884	B/BAP: 1675 DIED: 1747-12-11
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London bookseller of unsavory reputation who engaged in a lifelong pamphlet war with Alexander Pope.
REFERENCES TO Edmund Curll: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, February 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 12 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 5 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 1: ¶ 19 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VIII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (October 1847) 227-40 Found 1: ¶ 25 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. X. 1804 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 19