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BARNABY BERNARD LINTOT (1675-1736)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 736 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERNARD See also:LINTOT (1675-1736)  , See also:English publisher, was See also:born at Southwater, See also:Sussex, on the 1st of See also:December 1675, and started business as a publisher in See also:London about 1698 . He published for many of the leading writers of the See also:day, notably See also:Vanbrugh, See also:Steele, See also:Gay and See also:Pope . The latter's See also:Rape of the See also:Lock in its See also:original See also:form was first published in See also:Lintot's See also:Miscellany, and Lintot subsequently issued Pope's See also:translation of the Iliad and the See also:joint translation of the Odyssey by Pope, See also:Fenton and See also:Broome . Pope quarrelled with Lintot with regard to the See also:supply of See also:free copies of the latter translation to the author's subscribers, and in 1728 satirized the publisher in the Dunciad, and in 1735 in the See also:Prologue to the Satires, though he does not appear to have had any serious grievance .

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