This monograph is the second of two related titles about the "Quarterly Review" in "Pickering & Chatto"s" series and "The History of the Book".The "Quarterly Review" was a commercially successful literary and political review. It owed its success to the complex interactions between several competing elements: the material conditions of periodical publishing at the turn of the nineteenth century; the entrepreneurial ambitions of John Murray, the journal"s publisher; the careerist imperatives of "The Quarterly"s" editors and contributors; and the propagandist goals of its political backers in government. John Murray paid his writers handsomely and as the journal built up a strong reputation, it advanced its contributors" careers. The "Quarterly Review" played a leading role in dignifying writing for the market and made journalism a viable way to earn a living.A large amount of primary material relating to the journal survives, so the "Quarterly Review" presents a rare opportunity to Romantic scholars to test the truth of Marilyn Butler"s claim that the early nineteenth-century periodical is the matrix for democratization of public writing and reading.