The Round Table is a collection of essays by William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt published in 1817.
[2] The process of publishing the collection had begun in late 1815, but much of the following year was lost to delays caused by its Edinburgh-based publisher, Archibald Constable, who doubted that a collection of newspaper articles would have much success.
[3] The two volumes were finally published on 14 February 1817, and were sold at the price of fourteen shillings.
[6][7] In appraising the work, the reviewers deliberately confused the lighthearted essays written by Hunt with those by Hazlitt.
Hunt's essays—particularly the chapter on washerwomen—would be derided by the Quarterly Review and Blackwood's Magazine for years after The Round Table's publication.