| Item Description: | Includes extracts from other periodicals and from literary & gardening works; poetry.-- Goadby may have been editor as well as publisher.-- Caption title, each issue: The weekly amusement.-- Odd numbered volumes (volumes are not actually numbered) have engr. t-ps and engr. frontispieces.-- KU-S v. [1] also has printed title page ("The weekly amusement. Saturday, December 24, 1763 ... The second edition. [cut with motto They cull the choicest] London: Printed for W. Owen ... and R. Goadby in Sherborne ... MDCCLXIV.") and Preface which explains its design and that of two related publications: An historical detail of the most remarkable publick occurrences ... for the fortnight past and The universe displayed.-- volume 1 indexed & with directions to the binder indicating that "the first volume ... is to end with page 448, and the second ... with page 864" and with directions for placing the cuts of the Universe displayed and those of the Weekly amusement.-- The universe displayed (or display'd) seems only to have been issued in loose association with the WA (and, later, in a similar association with Moral and entertaining magazine (also Goadby's), a monthly which is not a continuation of the WA but which shows a strong kinship to it, including shared frontispieces); cf. Sabin 98017, ESTC t061218.
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