Curll, Edmund (1675–1747)
| English bookseller. He lived chiefly by piratical publishing and was convicted for publishing obscene works in 1725. The Scottish writer John Arbuthnot said of his biographies that they added a new terror to death. |
| In 1716 he quarrelled with the poet Alexander Pope, who later pilloried him in The Dunciad. |
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