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Read's Weekly Journal Or British Gazetteer
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1730 until 1761. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England)--Newspapers.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Newspapers
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v )
- Weekly
- No 282 (Saturday, August 15, 1730.)-[new ser.] numb. 6 (Saturday, May 2, 1761.).
- Continues:
- Weekly journal, or, British gazetteer.
- Continued By:
- London spy and Read's weekly journal
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Attributed to George Read. Cf. NCBEL.
- Imprint from undated colophon.
- At foot of p. 1 in square brackets: "Price two-pence".
- Beginning with No. 1434, E. Nunneley's name appears in colophon.
- Description based: No 282 (Saturday, August 15, 1730.); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: [new ser.] numb. 6 (Saturday, May 2, 1761.).
- Numbering is irregular after Sept. 1753; with misnumberings and omissions; issues for 28 Mar-2 May 1761 begin a new series; printed numeration begins with numb. 4. (Saturday April 18, 1761).
- Numbering continues from the preceding title; numbering, dating and content of No 282 (Saturday, August 15, 1730) repeated from the last issue of its predecessor: The Weekly journal, or British gazeteer.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1322
- Crane & Kaye, 927
- Times handlist, p. 40
- Wiles, Serial Publication in England before 1750, p. 62
- BUCOP, Vol. 3, p. 97
- OCLC:
- 643152900
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