Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)

Edmund Curll

British publisher and bookseller (c. 1675–1747)

Edmund Curll was an English bookseller and publisher. His name has become synonymous, through the attacks on him by Alexander Pope, with unscrupulous publication and publicity. Curll rose from poverty to wealth through his publishing, and he did this by approaching book printing…