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Weekly Oracle or Universal Library.

Format	Electronic, Book, and Journal
Publication Info	[London] : Printed and sold by T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryars, where letters to the authors, post-paid, and advertisements are taken in, the latter, if of a moderate length, and such as require no preference to others, at two shillings each. This paper may likewise be had at the pamphlet shops, at the Royal-Exchange, Temple-Bar, Charing-Cross, Westminster-Hall, and of the persons who carry newspapers, 1734-1735.
Description	v. : ill. ; 2°.
Supplemental Content	Gale, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Subject(s)	Conduct of life--Great Britain --Periodicals --Early works to 1800. Questions and answers--Periodicals --Early works to 1800. Great Britain--Social life and customs --18th century --Periodicals --Early works to 1800.

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Uniform title	Weekly oracle: or, Universal library (London, England : 1734)
Frequency	Weekly.
Series	Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection UNAUTHORIZED
Local note	Images from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Local note	Images from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.
General note	Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
General note	Undated imprint at foot of p.[1].
General note	Below imprint: (Price two-pence).
General note	Colophon: Books, bills, bonds, cases of Parliament, pannels for jurors, &c. are carefully and expeditiously printed by the printer of this paper.
General note	Geometric diagrams used to illustrate answers to mathematical queries.
General note	Anecdotes, local news, gossip, with a final leaf of questions and answers in each issue.
General note	Description based on: No. 1. (Saturday, December 7, 1734); title from caption.
General note	Latest issue consulted: No 10. (Saturday, February 8, 1735.).
References	NCBEL, II:1328
References	NCBEL, II:1278
References	Wiles, R.M. Serial Publication in England, pp. 65-66, 295
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Title history note	The final leaf or leaves, comprising the queries were apparently intended to be removed and cumulated, with a general title page and index in 1737 as: The Weekly oracle: or, Universal library (cf. T179594).
Title history note	A Dublin edition began to be published in May 1735 (cf. P23).
Other edition issued	Weekly oracle: or, Universal library (Dublin, Ireland : 1735)
Genre/form	Periodicals

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