See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

EDMUND See also:

• EDMUND CURLL (1675-1747)

CURLL (1675-1747)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English bookseller, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1675 in the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . His parents were in humble circumstances . After being apprenticed to an See also:

• EXETER
• EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

Exeter bookseller he came to See also:

• LONDON

London and started business on his own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, advertising himself by a See also:

• SYSTEM

system of newspaper quarrels . His connexion with the anonymously-published See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court Poems in 1716 led to the See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel with See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope, who took his revenge by immortalizing See also:

• CURLL, EDMUND (1675-1747)

Curll in the Dunciad . Curll became notorious for his indecent publications, so much so that " Curlicism " was regarded as a synonym for See also:

• LITERARY

literary indecency . In 1716 and again in 1721 he had to appear at the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar of the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of Lords for See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing See also:

• MATTER

matter concerning its members . In 1725 he was convicted of publishing obscene books, and fined in 1728 for publishing The See also:

• NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

Nun in her Smock and De Usu Flagrorum, while his Memoriesof See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• KER, JOHN (1673-1726)

Ker of Kersland cost him an See also:

• HOUR

hour in the See also:

• PILLORY (0. Fr. pilori, Prov. espitlori, from Lat. speculatorium, a place of observation or " peep-hole ")

pillory . When Curll in 1735 announced the forthcoming publication of "Mr Pope's Literary See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

Correspondence," his stock, at Pope's instigation, was seized . It has since been proved that the publication was really instigated by Pope, who wanted an excuse to See also:

• PRINT

print his letters, as he actually did (1737—1741) . In his f or ty years of business Curll published a See also:

• GREAT

great variety of books, of which a very large number, fortunately, were quite See also:

• FREE

free from " Curlicisms." A See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his publications contains, indeed, 167 See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard w Irks . He died on the ,lth of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1747 . For Curll's relations with Pope, see the See also:

• LIFE

Life of Pope, by See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• LESLIE
• LESLIE, CHARLES (1650-1722)
• LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (1794–1859)
• LESLIE, FRED [FREDERICK HOBSON] (1855–1892)
• LESLIE, SIR JOHN (1766-1832)
• LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (1827-1882)

Leslie See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

Stephen in the English Men of Letters See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series .