William Carew Hazlitt

This article is about William Carew Hazlitt the English bibliographer, editor and writer. For other persons named Hazlitt, see Hazlitt (name).

William Carew Hazlitt (22 August 1834 – 8 September 1913) 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, 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 his many publications are a , supplemented in 1876, 1882, 1887 and 1889, a General Index by J. G. Gray appearing in 1893. 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).

He also published Collections and Notes, 1867-1876 (London: Reeves & Turner, 1876, containing detailed bibliographical entries on many early English printed books) followed by . His autobiography is .

In 1875, he published an edition of the works of Thomas Randolph.

He published and .

Of great use, interest and delight to gardeners and collectors of herbals, etc. is his Gleanings in Old Garden Literature, published by Eliot 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.

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

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External links

• Works written by or about William Carew Hazlitt at Wikisource
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• Works by William Carew Hazlitt at Project Gutenberg
• Early Modern English Library Catalogues, William M Hamlin, 2006.