Abstract
What follows is hut the first rough draft,
in parts very incomplete, of a critical and descriptive bibliography of Leigh Hunt's prose writings. To
render such an account anything like perfect was
soon seen to be a work of years and it was thought
desirable to present the first results of research at
an early date. The lacunae, consisting chiefly of
the author's anonymous articles in fugitive and extinct periodicals, could be filled in afterwards. It
was, indeed, the thought of such scattered and anonymous compositions that made Mr. Edmund Cosse recently
despair of any such work as this ever being accomplished. However, the bibliographer of a fairly
recent author only needs time and some enthusiasm;
viresque acquirit eundo.
