A photosensitive lithographic printing plate comprising a substrate having provided on the surface thereof a photosensitive layer through a layer which is formed by coating and drying a composition prepared by hydrolyzing and polycondensing a compound represented by formula (I) in a solvent having dissolved therein a phenol having a molecular weight of 1,000 or less or an organic phosphoric acid compound:A.sub.m M(R).sub.n (I)wherein M represents silicon, aluminum, titanium or zirconium, A represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkenyl group, a propargyl group, an alkoxy group, an epoxyalkyl group, a silyl group, a siloxy group or a functional group capable of addition reaction by a radical, m and n each represents 0 or a positive integer, provided that m+n=3 or 4, and R represents one of the groups (a) to (e) defined in the specification.