Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Charles Lamb.
From the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, painted in 1805 by William Hazlitt.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
WILLIAM HAZLITT
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| TABLE TALK | 1 |
| CONVERSATIONS OF JAMES NORTHCOTE, Esq., R.A. | 331 |
| NOTES | 467 |
TABLE TALK; OR, ORIGINAL ESSAYS ON MEN AND MANNERS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The first edition was published in two 8vo volumes, the first volume in 1821with the following title-page: ‘Table-Talk; or, Original Essays. By WilliamHazlitt. London: John Warren, Old Bond-Street 1821’; the second volumein 1822 with the following title-page: ‘Table-Talk; or, Original Essays. ByWilliam Hazlitt. Vol. II. London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. 1822.’Both volumes were printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars. The first volumecontained the following Advertisement: ‘It may be proper to observe, that theEssays “On the Pleasure of Painting” and “On the Ignorance of the Learned,”in this Volume, have already appeared in periodical publications.’ The secondvolume contained a list of ‘errata.’ The second edition appeared in 1824 in two8vo volumes. The title-page ran as follows: ‘Table-Talk, or Original Essays onMen and Manners. Second Edition. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, NewBurlington Street. 1824.’ The volumes were printed by J. Nichols and Son,25 Parliament Street. This edition, apparently a mere reprint of the first edition,is here reprinted verbatim except that the mistakes referred to in the ‘errata’ of thef