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4 unusual facts about Joseph Haslewood


Christopher Brooke

Corser printed selections in his Collectanea, and Joseph Haslewood described it in the British Bibliographer, ii.

Edmund Bolton

This is valuable for its notices of contemporary authors such as Ben Jonson, whom he praises as the greatest English poet; this manuscript was reprinted in Joseph Haslewood's Ancient Critical Essays (vol. ii., 1815); Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved (1624), with special note of British affairs.

George Puttenham

There are other modern editions of the book, notably one in Joseph Haslewood's Ancient Critical Essays (1811–1815).

Juliana Berners

Joseph Haslewood, who published a facsimile of that of Wynkyn de Worde (London, 1811, folio) with a biographical and bibliographical notice, examined with the greatest care the author's claims to figure as the earliest woman author in the English language.



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