hyphenization

I have noticed a lot of what seems to me to be over-hyphenization in modern English.

Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar 2008

Here and elsewhere, inconsistent hyphenization of “Salt (-) cellar” is unchanged.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Inconsistencies include: capitalization of “Fig.” or “fig.” hyphenization of words such as “oxy-muriatic”

Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments 1813

Minor differences in spelling and hyphenization are not noted.

The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631