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The Eighteenth Century

Location: McKeldin Library
Call number: Microfilm PR1134.E3
Reels 1-5355.
McKeldin Library owns reels 1-5355 of this collection. Titles filmed on later reels may be borrowed from Johns Hopkins University Library through Interlibrary Loan.


Description

This collection will eventually contain approximately 200,000 items selected from the 500,000 titles printed in Great Britain and its colonies or printed in English elsewhere between 1701 and 1800.

A title roster listing reel content is located at the beginning of each reel.


Index/Guide

The following sources provide more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:
REF PR1134.E32 FOLIO
The Eighteenth Century: Guide to the Microfilm Collection. Units 1-.
Provides ongoing author, title, and subject access to The Eighteenth Century microfilm collection, including later reels not owned by McKeldin.

UMCP Libraries Web Site
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), which is searchable as a file on RLIN BIB, contains the records of titles in The Eighteenth Century,which may be identified by runing a search and thenlimiting the records to microfilm. To limit, click on the LIMIT button; click on the down arrow in the box that appears, click on OTHER, then on NOTE. Click on the box labeled VALUE and type the word "microfilm". Then click on the APPLY button.

REF AUTO PR1134.E57 1992
ESTC on CD-ROM: The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalog.
This is a bibliography and union catalog of imprints for materials printed in Great Britain and her colonies during the 18th century. Selected titles from this database are available in full text in the Eighteenth Century microfilm set. The CD-ROM database is a subset of The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalog file, which is searchable on RLIN. The CD-ROM contains materials that have been added to the RLIN file through December of 1991. The English Short Title Catalogue contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the 18th century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.

 

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