Joseph Haslewood (5 November 1769 – 21 September 1833) was an English writer and antiquary . He was a founder of the Roxburghe Club .
7-522: Haslewood was born in London, the son of Richard Haslewood and his wife Mary Dewsberry. At an early age Haslewood entered the office of his uncle, Dewberry, a solicitor in Conduit Street, afterwards became a partner, and ultimately succeeded to the business. He distinguished himself by his zeal for antiquarian studies; his editorial labours were considerable, and he collected a curious library. Among
14-508: The Life and Publications of the late Joseph Ritson, Esq. , 8 volumes. Occasionally he contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine . He died on 21 September 1833, at Addison Road, Kensington. At the sale of his library (auctioned by R. H. Evans in London on 16 December 1833 and seven following days: a copy of the catalogue is at Cambridge University Library at the shelfmark Munby.c.142(1)) Thorpe,
21-681: The Roxburghe Club publications). A valuable collection of Proclamations formed by Haslewood is now in the library of the Duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith; nine volumes of newspaper cuttings, prints, &c., illustrative of stage-history, are preserved in the British Museum . Haslewood was a keen collector of fugitive tracts. It was his fancy to bind several together in a volume, and affix some absurd title, as Quaffing Quavers to Quip Queristers , Tramper's Twattle, or Treasure and Tinsel, from
28-641: The Roxburghe Club, founded 17 June 1812. Falling into unfriendly hands, the manuscript afforded material for a virulent attack on Haslewood's memory in the Athenæum , January 1834. In 1837, James Maidment reprinted the Athenæum articles at Edinburgh, with a memoir of Haslewood, under the title Roxburghe Revels, and other Relative Papers; including Answers to the attack on the Memory of the late Joseph Haslewood, Esq., F.S.A., with Specimens of his Literary Productions , 4to (fifty copies, privately printed; uniform with
35-558: The bookseller, bought for 40 l . a collection of Haslewood's manuscript notes on the proceedings of the Roxburghe Club. This ill-written and insipid record of the club's achievements was titled Roxburghe Revels; or, An Account of the Annual Display, culinary and festivous, interspersed incidentally with matters of Moment and Merriment. Also, Brief Notices of the Press Proceedings by a few Lions of Literature, combined as
42-527: The works of Richard Brathwait, whose claim to the authorship of the famous Itinerary Haslewood firmly established. Haslewood supplied Egerton Brydges with occasional communications for Censura Literaria , 1807–9, and The British Bibliographer , 1810–14. He was one of the founders of the Roxburghe Club , and conducted some of the club books through the press. In 1809, he published Green-Room Gossip; or Gravity Gallinipt , and in 1824 Some Account of
49-429: The works that he edited were Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry , 1810; Juliana Berners or Barnes's Book of St. Albans , 1810; Painter's Palace of Pleasure , 1813; Antient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy , 2 vols. 1811–1815; Mirror for Magistrates , 2 vols. 1815; and Drunken Barnaby's Journal , 1 vol. 1817–18, 2 vols. 1820. The 1820 edition of Barnaby's Journal contains an elaborate notice of
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