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- Description
- 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, Early English Books Online (EEBO)
will
contain the full text of over 125,000 titles when complete. Titles included are those 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) and
the Early
English Books Tract Supplement.
The Thomason Tracts comprise 22,000 items, including 400 periodicals, plus parliamentary
speeches, news reports, sermons,
religious & political tracts, and nearly 100 manuscripts. The Tract Supplement, which will
ultimately include nearly 20,000
works, comprises a collection of small items such as broadsides and pamphlets, which were
often collected into
"scrapbooks," or tract volumes, classified by various criteria such as dates or topics.
These tract volumes, primarily from
the British Library, allow readers to see the material in the same order as they would when leafing
through the original
volume.
Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus,
Boyle, Newton, and Galileo;
musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and
proclamations; almanacs,
calendars, and many other primary sources. Roughly 118,500 titles were available in EEBO as
of the last update, in November
2007.
Scholars and researchers in history, philosophy, religion, literature, linguistics, music,
poetry, education, gender
studies, mathematics, science, and other fields will benefit from the unique perspective provided by
this collection.
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- Dates covered
- 1473-1700.
- Updating frequency
- Ongoing additions to the collection.
- Sources
- Books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, letters, public documents, almanacs, calendars,
manuscripts, and other primary sources.
- Type of coverage
- Full page image with selected full text.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Early English Books (1475-1640) microfilm;
Early English Books (1641-1700) microfilm;
Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) microfilm
- Producer/content provider
- Chadwyck-Healey
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Chadwyck-Healey
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