Weekly Review of the Affairs of France

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, Author.

Series:

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

France--Politics and government--1643-1715--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

France.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (7 v. )

Semiweekly, 25-28 Mar. 1704

Numb. 1. (Saturday, Feb. 19. 1704.)-Numb. 7. (Tuesday, March 28. 1704.).

Continued By:

Review of the affairs of France

Notes:

Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).

Edited by Daniel Defoe (cf. NCBEL).

Under the guidance of Robert Harley early and late in its existence, during which time this periodical exerted its greatest influence (cf. McLeod).

No. 1 lacks colophon; imprint from colophon of no. 2.

Beginning with no. 4, printed above advertisements: Advertisements are taken in at reasonable rates by J[ohn]. Matthews [Sr.], in Pilkington Court in Little Britain.

Most issues include a section entitled: Mercure scandale: or, Advice from the scandalous club.

With continuous pagination and register.

With an added collective title page for the "Weekly review" and its succeeding title, 'A review of the affairs of France', bearing the imprint: London : printed in the year, MDCCV, and accompanied by prefatory material signed "D.F.", i.e. Daniel Defoe.

Description based on: Numb. 1. (Saturday, Feb. 19. 1704.); title from caption.

Latest issue consulted: Numb. 7. (Tuesday, March 28. 1704.).

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1343

McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory, 1702-1714, p. 29, 47-48

Times handlist, p. 35

Contains:

Mercure scandale: or, Advice from the scandalous club.

OCLC:

643154614