William Carew Hazlitt: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer}}

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'''William Carew Hazlitt''' (22 August 1834{{snd}}8 September 1913),<ref>''Who's Who 1914'', p. xxii</ref> known professionally as '''W. Carew Hazlitt''', was an [[England|English]] lawyer, [[bibliographer]], editor and writer. He was the son of the barrister and registrar [[William Hazlitt (registrar)|William Hazlitt]],a grandson of the essayist and critic [[William Hazlitt]],{{sfn|Dictionary of National Biography}} anda great-grandson of the Unitarian minister and author [[William Hazlitt (Unitarian minister)|William Hazlitt]]. William Carew Hazlitt was educated at the [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|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>{{cite book|author=William Carew Hazlitt|title=Handbook to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain: From the Invention of Printing to the Restoration|url=https://archive.org/details/handbooktopopul00hazlgoog|year=1867|publisher=J.R. Smith}}, 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 ''[[The History of English Poetry|History of English Poetry]]'' (1871) and compiled the ''Catalogue of the Huth Library'' (1880).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=120}}

He edited ''A Select Collection of Old English Plays'', 4th edition (London: Reeves and Turner, 1874–76), which had been originally published by [[Robert Dodsley|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>{{cite book|author=William Carew Hazlitt|title=Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature 1474-1700: Second Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKDEngEACAAJ|year=1882|publisher=[[Bernard Quaritch|Quaritch]]}}</ref>

In 1897 Hazlitt published his autobiography under the title ''The Confessions of a Collector''.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Carew Hazlitt|title=The Confessions of a Collector|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41393/41393-h/41393-h.htm|year=1897}}</ref>

In 1875, he published an edition of the works of [[Thomas Randolph (poet)|Thomas Randolph]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/poeticalanddrama01randuoft/poeticalanddrama01randuoft_djvu.txt |website=archive.org |title=Poetical and Dramatic Works of Thomas Randolph of Trinity College, Cambridge |last=Hazlitt |first=W. Carew |publisher=Reeves and Turner |location=London |year=1875 |access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> In 1877 he published a new edition of [[Charles Cotton]]'s translation of [[Montaigne]]'s ''[[Essays (Montaigne)|Essays]]''.<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3581/pg3581.html 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>{{cite book|author=William Carew Hazlitt|title=The History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization|url=https://archive.org/details/historyvenetian05hazlgoog|year=1860|publisher=Smith}}</ref> and ''Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine'' (1886).<ref>{{cite book|author=William Carew Hazlitt|title=Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12293|year=1886}}, reviewed in {{cite journal|author=Peacock, Mabel|author-link=Mabel Peacock|title=Review of ''Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine'' by H. Carew Hazlitt|journal=The Academy and Literature|date=24 July 1886|volume=30|issue=742|page=61|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.79227477;view=1up;seq=55}}</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. [https://archive.org/details/gleaningsinoldga00hazlrich ''Gleanings in Old Garden Literature'']. London: Elliot Stock, 1887.</ref>

Compendious in scope and idiosyncratic in selection is his {{cite book|title=A Dictionary of Faiths and Folk Lore|publisher=Reeves & Turner|year=1905|author=<!-- William Carew Hazlitt -->|oclc = 647632425}}, which preserves evidence of numerous folk customs now extinct.

== Notes ==

== References ==

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* [http://www.wsu.edu/~whamlin/important.html Early Modern English Library Catalogues, William M Hamlin, 2006.]

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