William Carew Hazlitt

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox writer William Carew Hazlitt (22 August 1834Template:Snd8 September 1913),<ref>Who's Who 1914, p. xxii</ref> known professionally as W. Carew Hazlitt, was an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer. He was the son of the barrister and registrar William Hazlitt, a grandson of the essayist and critic William Hazlitt,Template:Sfn and a great-grandson of the Unitarian minister and author William Hazlitt. William Carew Hazlitt was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1861.

Works

Among Hazlitt's many publications are Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain: From the Invention of Printing to the Restoration (1867).<ref>Template:Cite book, supplemented in 1876, 1882, 1887 and 1889, a General Index by J. G. Gray appearing in 1893.</ref> Hazlitt published further contributions to the subject in Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, Made During the Years 1893–1903 (1903), and a Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays ... (1892). He was also the chief editor of an edition of Warton's History of English Poetry (1871) and compiled the Catalogue of the Huth Library (1880).Template:Sfn

He edited A Select Collection of Old English Plays, 4th edition (London: Reeves and Turner, 1874–76), which had been originally published by Dodsley in 1744.

He also published Collections and Notes, 1867-1876 (London: Reeves & Turner, 1876, containing detailed bibliographical entries on many early English printed books) followed by Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature 1474-1700: Second Supplement (1882).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1897 Hazlitt published his autobiography under the title The Confessions of a Collector.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1875, he published an edition of the works of Thomas Randolph.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1877 he published a new edition of Charles Cotton's translation of Montaigne's Essays.<ref>Essays of Michel de Montaigne, gutenberg.org. Retrieved 28 June 2021.</ref>

He also published The History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization (1860)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886).<ref>Template:Cite book, reviewed in Template:Cite journal</ref>

Of great use, historical interest and delight to gardeners and collectors of herbals, etc., is his Gleanings in Old Garden Literature, published by Elliot Stock, London, 1887, in The Book-Lover's Library. This book includes, in its final chapter, a Bibliography of Gardening Literature, 1603–1800, and of Herbals and Bee Culture. The book focuses on European gardening and British adoptions and modifications thereof from the 15th through the 17th century.<ref>Hazlitt, William Carew. Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. London: Elliot Stock, 1887.</ref>

Compendious in scope and idiosyncratic in selection is his Template:Cite book, which preserves evidence of numerous folk customs now extinct.

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