NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Weber, Henry, 1783-1816 NRA: Weber Henry William (1783-1818) Editor of Plays and Romances DNB: Weber, Henry William (1783-1818), literary scholar and secretary LBT ID: HeWeber1818 VIAF ID: 70331228 LOC ID: n84108343 | B/BAP: 1783-09-22 DIED: 1818-03-25 |
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The son of a Moravian father and English mother, he published an edition of the works of
John Ford and Beaumont and Fletcher; after working as an editorial assistant to Walter
Scott he spent his latter years in a lunatic asylum. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Henry William Weber:
The Dramatic Works of John Ford. With an Introduction and Explanatory
Notes. Found 1.
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Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, from the earlier Teutonic and
Scandinavian Romances; being an Abstract of the Book of Heroes, and Nibelungen Lay. Found 1.
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Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries
published from Ancient Manuscripts. Found 4.
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Tales of the East: comprising the most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin,
and the best Imitations by European Authors: with New Translations, and Additional Tales,
never before published: to which is prefixed an introductory Dissertation, containing the
Account of each Work, and of its Author, or Translator. Found 1.
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