Robert Braham

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Robert Braham (fl. 1555) was an English editor.

Works

In 1555, he edited The Auncient Historic and onely trewe and syncere Cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans … translated into Englyshe verse by J. Lydgate, Thomas Marshe, London, 1555,

Chaucer; and desired to emulate Thynne's example with respect to Lydgate. Braham condemns severely the carelessness of the printers of the first edition of Lydgate's Troy, and charges them with a fatal ignorance of English. Braham's edition is a well-printed blackletter
folio.

References

"Braham, Robert" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.