. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ict it did inNovember, 16SS. In Rose Street lived the notorious bookseller,Edmund Curll, at the Popes Head, a sign whichhe had set up, not, certainly, out of forAlexander Pope, but rather from an oiposite feel-ing. After the quarrel which arose out of Curllspiratical publication of Popes library correspon-dence, says Mr. Larwood, in his History of Sign- Covent Garden.] NEW STREET. 265 Boards, Curll addressed, in ]\Iay, 1735, a letterof thanks to the House of Lords, ending thus: I have engraved a new plate
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ict it did inNovember, 16SS. In Rose Street lived the notorious bookseller,Edmund Curll, at the Popes Head, a sign whichhe had set up, not, certainly, out of forAlexander Pope, but rather from an oiposite feel-ing. After the quarrel which arose out of Curllspiratical publication of Popes library correspon-dence, says Mr. Larwood, in his History of Sign- Covent Garden.] NEW STREET. 265 Boards, Curll addressed, in ]\Iay, 1735, a letterof thanks to the House of Lords, ending thus: I have engraved a new plate of Sh. Popes headfrom Mr. Jervass painting, and likewise intend tohang him up in effigy for a sign to all spectators ofhis falsehood and my veracity, which I will always , Xew Street, just by. Several of them had They expected to meet every day, but did not know, one anothers names. It used to cost the rest aI shilling, for they drank wine ; but I had a cut ofmeat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gaveI the waiter a penny; so that I was quite well served.
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