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The Library 2004 5(2):176-194; doi:10.1093/library/5.2.176
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The Prosecutions of Edmund Curll, 1725–28

Pat Rogers and Paul Baines

Recent scholarship on the bookseller Edmund Curll has tended to lay disproportionate stress on his prosecution for the pornographic novel Venus in the Cloister. This article reconstructs the sequence of the prosecutions initiated against Curll by using largely unpublished papers from the National Archives. By restoring this sequence, and setting it in the context of Curll's career as a whole, the article shows that government officers were more alarmed by Curll's publication of the Memoirs of John Ker of Kersland than by the issue of pornography.


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