The Monthly Review was an English periodical founded by Ralph Griffiths

Ralph Griffiths

Ralph Griffiths was a journal editor and publisher of Welsh extraction...

, a Nonconformist bookseller. The first periodical in England to offer reviews, it featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish writer, poet and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village , and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer...

 as an early contributor. William Kenrick

William Kenrick (writer)

William Kenrick was an English novelist, playwright, translator and satirist, who spent much of his career libelling and lampooning his fellow writers.- Life and career :Kenrick was born at Watford, Hertfordshire, son of a stay-maker...

, the "superlative scoundrel", was editor from 1759 to 1766.

Publishing history of the Monthly Review:
Printed for R. Griffiths {etc.}

• Volumes 1–81, May 1749–Dec. 1789;
• {2d ser.} v. 1–108, Jan. 1790–Nov. 1825;
• new {3d} ser., v. 1–15, Jan. 1826–Dec. 1830;
• new {4th} ser., v. 1–45, Jan. 1831–Dec. 1844.

Many libraries have incorrectly catalogued the periodical as the London Monthly Review.

See also

• List of nineteenth-century British periodicals
• List of eighteenth-century British periodicals
• List of eighteenth century journals