CURLL, EDMUND (1675-1747), London bookseller, is remembered for his long quarrel with Pope over the anonymously published Court Poems 0716). Pope took his revenge by immor talizing Curll in the Dunciad. Curll became notorious for his in decent publications, so much so that "Curlicism" was regarded as a synonym for literary indecency. In 1716 and again in 1721 he had to appear at the bar of the House of Lords for publishing mat ter concerning its members. In 1725 he was convicted of publish ing obscene books, and fined in 1728 for publishing The Nun in her Smock and De US11 Flagrorum, while his Memories of John Ker of Kersland cost him an hour in the pillory. When Curll in announced the forthcoming publication of Mr. Pope's Literary 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 print his letters, as he actually did (1737-41). In his forty years of business Curll published a great variety of books; a list of his publications contains 167 standard works. He died on Dec. 11, See the Life of Pope, by Sir Leslie Stephen, and R. Straus, The Unspeakable Curll (1927).