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Early English Books Online

Type
website
Publisher
Bell & Howell Information and Learning
Description
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. EEBO contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Key works and authors include: Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Boyle, Newton, Galileo, Aphra Behn, Anne Killigrew, and Margaret Cavendish, earliest editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Malory's Morte d'Arthur and Nicholas Culpeper's The English Physician (1652), royal statutes and proclamations, military, religious, legal, Parliamentary, and other public documents, almanacs and calendars, broadsides and romances, plus popular pamphlets such as The Trail of Witchcraft, Showing the True and Righte Method of Discovery (1616), Book of Common Prayer (1549), and The King James translation of the Bible (1611). Also available on microfilm at mfm 790 (Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room).
Coverage
1473-1700
keywords
EEBO, literature

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