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The English Philological Society’s dictionary. Nation 1880.
On some points of usage in English. Amer Jnl of Philology 1882.
A brace of whims. Nation 1894.
A nice point of biblical English. Nation 1894.
Hall also wrote on Indian literature and philosophy and edited the works of
Sir David Lindsay (with J. A. Murray, 1865–9) and William Lauder (with F. J.
Furnivall, 1864–70) for the EETS.
James Orchard Halliwell, later Halliwell-
Phillipps 1820–89
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Shakesperiana: a catalogue of the early editions of Shakespeare’s
plays and of the commentaries and other publications illustrative
of his works. 1841.
A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases,
proverbs and ancient customs from the fourteenth century. 2 vols
1846–7, 6 edns by 1904.
The life of William Shakespeare; including many particulars
respecting the poet and his family never before published. 1848.
Contributions to early English literature derived chiefly from rare
books and ancient inedited manuscripts from the fifteenth to the
seventeenth century. 6 pts 1849.
A new boke about Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon. 1850.
Observations on the Shakespeare forgeries at Bridgewater House,
illustrative of a facsimile of the spurious letter of H. S. 1853 (priv
ptd). On the John Payne Collier controversy.
A brief hand-list of books, manuscripts etc illustrative of the life
and writings of Shakespeare, collected between the years 1842
and 1859. 1859 (priv ptd).
A dictionary of old English plays, existing either in print or in manuscript,
from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth
century. 1860.
A brief hand-list of the records belonging to the Borough of
Stratford-on-Avon showing their general character; with notes of
a few of the Shakespearian documents in the same collection.
1862 (priv ptd).
A hand-list of upwards of a thousand volumes of Shakesperiana
added to the three previous collections of a similar kind. 1862
(priv ptd).
A descriptive calendar of the ancient manuscripts and records in the
possession of the corporation of Stratford-on-Avon; including
notices of Shakespeare and his family, and of several persons connected
with the poet. 1863 (priv ptd).
Illustrations of the life of Shakespeare in a discursive series of
essays. 1874.
New lamps or old? a few additional words respecting the E and the A
in the name of our national dramatist. Brighton 1880. Favours
the spelling ‘Shakespeare’.
Outlines of the life of Shakespeare. Brighton 1881 (priv ptd), 1882
(tripled in size), 2 vols 1887 (7th edn, enlarged). A different work
from the Life of Shakespeare, above.
A calendar of the Shakespearean rarities, drawings and engravings,
preserved at Hollingbury Copse. 1887 (priv ptd); ed E. E. Baker
1891 (enlarged).
Halliwell pbd many other bks and pamphlets, many of them in very small
limited edns, dealing with Shakespearian topography, history, iconography,
etc; with 16th- and 17th-century literature and earlier literature; also catalogues,
inventories, etc.
Editions
The voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundevile, kt, reprinted from
the edition of 1725, with an introduction, additional notes and
glossary. 1839.
The harrowing of Hell: a miracle play, written in the reign of
Edward the second, now first published from the original manu-
John Genest | Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armitage Hamilton
script in the British Museum, with an introduction, translation
and notes. 1840.
The first sketch of the Merry wives of Windsor. 1842 (Shakespeare
Soc).
The nursery rhymes of England, obtained principally from oral tradition.
1842, 1843 (with addns), 1846 (4th edn, with addns) (Percy
Soc).
Private diary of John Dee, and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts.
1842 (Camden Soc).
Nugae poeticae: select pieces of old English popular poetry, illustrating
the manners and arts of the fifteenth century. 1844.
The Thornton romances: the early English metrical romances of
Perceval, Isumbras, Eglamor and Degrevant, selected from manuscripts
at Lincoln and Cambridge. 1844 (Camden Soc).
Letters of the kings of England, now first collected from the originals,
edited, with an historical introduction and notes. 2 vols
1846.
Morte Arthure: the alliterative romance of the death of King Arthur,
now first printed from a manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral. 1847.
The poetry of witchcraft illustrated by copies of the plays on the
Lancashire witches by Heywood, [Brome] and Shadwell. 1853
(priv ptd).
The works of William Shakespeare: the text formed from a new collation
of the early editions; to which are added all the original
novels and tales on which the plays are founded, copious archaeological
annotations on each play; an essay on the formation of the
text; and a life of the poet. 16 vols 1853–65 (150 copies ptd for the
editor).
A glossary or collection of words, phrases, names and allusions to
customs, proverbs etc which have been thought to require illustration
in the works of the English authors, particularly
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, by Robert Nares: a new
edition, with considerable additions. 2 vols 1859. With Thomas
Wright.
A treatyse of a galaunt; with the maryage of the fayre Pusell, the
bosse of Byllyngesgate unto London Stone, from the unique
edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde. 1860 (priv ptd).
Shakespearian facsimiles: a collection of curious and interesting
documents, plans, signatures & illustrative of the biography of
Shakespeare and the history of his family, from the originals
chiefly preserved at Stratford-on-Avon, facsimiled by E. W.
Ashbee, selected by Halliwell. 1863 (priv ptd).
Stratford-upon-Avon in the times of the Shakespeares, illustrated
by extracts from the Council books of the Corporation, selected
especially with reference to the history of the poet’s father.
1864–5.
Those songs and poems from the excessively rare first edition of
England’s Helicon, 1600, which are connected with the works of
Shakespeare. 1865 (25 copies).
Halliwell edited some 150 works, mainly but not entirely in 17th-century literature,
and did much work for the Camden, Percy and Shakespeare Socs. In
1841–2, with Thomas Wright, he edited Archaeologist and Jnl of
Antiquarian Science, of which only 10 issues appeared.
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Winsor, J. Halliwelliana: a bibliography of the publications of James
Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. Cambridge MA 1881.
Wright, G. R. A brief memoir of the late Halliwell-Phillipps. 1889.
Obituary. Athenaeum 12 Jan 1889.
Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armitage
Hamilton d. 1915
An inquiry into the corrections on Mr J. Payne Collier’s Annotated
Shakspere folio, 1632; and of certain documents likewise published
by Mr Collier. 1860.
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