The Weekly journal, or, British gazetteer. Being the freshest advices foreign and domestick.
Read, James,active 1701-1739,attributed name.
London [England] : printed and sold by J[ames]. Read in White-Fryers near Fleet-Street, where advertisements are taken in cheaper than in any other news-paper,
Editorship sometimes attributed to George Read.
Imprint from colophon; imprint lacks dates.
Title flanked by woodcuts of a postboy and a ship in full sail.
At foot of first column: "Price one peny [sic]."
Some advertisements have small illustrations.
Printed in two columns; text begins with factotum initial.
Includes European news, country by country, provincial and Scottish news, Parliamentary news, occasional verse, commodity prices, crime news, and a few advertisements.
Description based on: Saturday, April 16. 1715.; title from caption.
ESTC
NCBEL,
Crane & Kaye,
Numbering begins  1715; first no. recorded is "Part XXXVI."; however, if publication begins in Feb. 1715, this no. should be "30"; numbering apparently ceases with "part XLVI" (12 Nov. 1715), and recommences after 24 Apr. 1725.
Issues for May 1, 1725-Aug. 15, 1730 are numbered 1-282.
Two printings of no. 282 (15 Aug. 1730).
Microfilm.
Prices
Great Britain England London.
Read's weekly journal, or, British gazetteer