 All editors signed their reviews with initials (sometimes not their own) rather than with their names.This practice was meant to prevent the appearance of collusion between the reviewers and the authors reviewed, although this did not succeed in practice.It was also intended to prevent any unethical puffing, or false advertising, of friends' or one's own books; nevertheless, both Henry Fuseli and Mary Wollstonecraft reviewed their own books for the journal.