Early English Books, 1475-1640

Location: McKeldin Library
Call Number: Microfilm PR1101.E5

Automated Access: The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), searchable as a file on RLIN BIB (Eureka), contains the records of titles in Early English Books, which may be identified by running a search and then limiting the records to microfilm. To limit, click on the LIMIT button; click on down arrow key in the box that appears, click on OTHER,then click on NOTE. Click on box labeled VALUE and type the word "microfilm". Then click on the APPLY button.

Titles also have separate entries with microfilm reel numbers in the online catalog. To do a subject search in VICTOR, do a word search entering subject keywords first; then add "Early English Books":

Ex: //w plague/early english books.

Description

This collection reproduces selected titles from Pollard and Redgrave's Short-title Catalogue. Only those items which have been located by the compilers are included.

Titles were not filmed in the order in which they appear in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-title Catalogue (STC). Instead they are filmed as they are located in various libraries.

The most recent Cross Index (REF Z 2002.U573) links STC numbers with reel numbers. It is arranged by STC numbers. The Cross Index should be used in order to determine which titles have been filmed to date. Subsequently filmed titles are listed in more recent issues of the Guide (see above, same call number).

The library's copy of the STC is partially annotated with STC numbers. Recently filmed titles listed in issues of the Guide which were published after the cumulative Cross Index was compiled are annotated in the STC with reel numbers. Thus, by using the Cross Index along with issues of the Guide which supplement it, one can locate all titles which have been filmed to date. This microfilm collection is a continuing project.

Index/Guide

The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:

REF Z2002.U573

Early English Books, 1475-1640. [1st]- year; Reels 1-
A Guide to the Microfilm Collection.

REF Z2002.P77 FOLIO

Pollard, Alfred William and Redgrave, G.R. A Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640.

Additional titles of interest:

REF Z 2002.P772B5 1968 FOLIO

William W. Bishop. A Checklist of American Copies of "Short-title Catalogue" Books.

REF Z 2002.C17

Cambridge. University. Library. Early English Printed Books in the University Library, 1475-1640.

REF Z 2002.S79 FOLIO

London. Stationer's Company. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640.

BIBL Z 2002.B86

British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. Catalogue of Books in the Library of the British Museum Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of Books in English Printed Abroad to the Year 1640.

REF Z 2012.N531

Newberry Library. Chicago. English Books and Books Printed in England Before 1641 in the Newberry Library.

REF Z 2002.P772R3 FOLIO

Ramage, David. A Finding List of English Books to 1640 in Libraries in the British Isles (Excluding the National Libraries and the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge).

REF Z 2002.W5 FOLIO

Wing, Donald R. Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700.
Note: Pollard and Redgrave's catalog precedes this work.
See also: Early English Books, 1640-1700 in this Guide. This microfilm collection contains titles which are listed in Wing's catalog.