Julian Ferraro is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Liverpool, UK. He works chiefly on seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century poetry, particularly satire, and on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, particularly pictorial narrative, the relationship between literature and architecture, and the literary representation of money. He has published many articles on Alexander Pope, with a particular focus on his manuscripts, together with articles on subjects ranging from Joseph Conrad to contemporary comics.

Paul Baines is Professor in the Department of English, University of Liverpool, UK. He works chiefly on literature and culture in the long eighteenth century, especially satire, crime and the book trade. His main publications are The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope (2000), Five Romantic Plays 1768-1821 (co-edited with Edward Burns, 2000), Edmund Curll, Bookseller (with Pat Rogers, 2007) and The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton (2014).