ABSTRACT
First published by John Hunt as an independent piece advertising the magazine, dated April 1810 in British Library copy (823.C.1.52). Reprinted in The Reflector, I, October 1810–March 1811 (issued around 1 January 1811), pp. iii–ix. On the writing of prospectuses, see the ‘Introduction’ above, pp. xxxix–xl. The magazine lasted for four issues over fifteen months. The dates of the issues are not publication dates but rather the time period covered by the various retrospective articles. Around 240 pages (fifteen sheets, as Hunt points out in an editorial note following the Prospectus) in length and distributed in a light-green wrapper, The Reflector was fairly expensive at six shillings. When the magazine was discontinued, its numbers together with this ‘Prospectus’ (and in some cases a notice about the journal’s demise) were bound into two octavo volumes, half calf and half green morocco entitled The Reflector: A Collection of Essays. Kenneth Kendall’s valuable Leigh Hunt’s Reflector (Paris: Mouton, 1971), p. 23, indicates that there were two printings, one in early 1812 and the other after 23 August 1812 when the offices of The Examiner were moved from the Strand to Covent Garden.
