The Lectures on The English Poets. Delivered at the Surrey Institution. By William
Hazlitt, were published in 8vo. (8 × 51), in the year of their delivery, 1818; a
second edition was published in 1819, of which the present issue is a reprint.
The imprint reads, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet Street.
1819,' and the volume was printed by T. Miller, Printer, Noble Street, Cheapside.'
Behind the half-title appears the following advertisement: This day is published,
Characters of Shakespear's Plays, by William Hazlitt. Second Edition, 8vo. price
10s. 6d. boards.' A four-page advertisement of Books just published by Taylor
and Hessey' ends the volume, with Characters of Shakspeare's Plays' at the top,
and a notice of it from the Edinburgh Review.