The intention, in the following pages, is to identify the authors of all literary articles appearing in the Quarterly Review during the period (1826–53) in which John Gibson Lockhart was editor. The project rests mainly on the authority of the Contributors' Book kept by the house of John Murray, publishers of the Review, at 50 Albemarle Street, London. The full name of each contributor is given when it could be secured from the Dictionary of National Biography or from Boase's Modern English Biography. In several instances this separate information was unobtainable, and the form employed is that recorded in the Contributors' Book itself—which rarely does more than give the initials of first names. When, as in a few cases, the identity of the author of an article is unknown or doubtful, the fact is so stated.