Comprehensive Coverage, Instant Access

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Comprehensive Coverage, Instant Access

• EEBO currently comprises
• 118,715 bibliographic records
• Cover-to-cover facsimile page images for 107,727
  works (projected total 125,000)
• Keyed transcriptions from the Text Creation
  Partnership (TCP) for 14,949 works (projected
  total 25,000)

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Comprehensive Coverage, Instant Access

• EEBO will contain
• Facsimile page images of virtually every work
  printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
  British North America and works in English
  printed elsewhere from 14731700
• Variant editions and multiple copies
• c.125,000 titles comprising approximately 14
  million scanned pages

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Diverse Coverage

• Books in 33 languages, from Algonquin to Welsh
• Volumes published in 15 different countries, from
  Belgium to the United States
• 200 contributing libraries worldwide, from the
  Aberdeen Central Library to the
  Zentralbibliothek, Zürich

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Searching

• Fully searchable Bibliographic Records for all
  works
• Search according to Author, Title, Imprint,
  Subject, Bibliographic Number, Source Library,
  Language etc
• All illustrations indexed and searchable
  according to type
• Searchable transcriptions from the TCP for 14,949
  works

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Bibliographic Records

• Works in EEBO are catalogued from the microfilm
  in-house by four rare book cataloguers
• EEBO Bibliographic Records are based upon the
  AACR2 format EEBO MARC records, with Library of
  Congress subject headings recently reviewed and
  updated
• Many records incorporate data supplied by ESTC
• Over 90 of the records have subject headings
  (though some types of works, such as Bibles,
  belles lettres, fiction, and plays are not
  assigned subject headings)

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Coverage and Highlights
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The Origins of English Printing
William Caxton (1421-1491)
here begynneth the volume intituled and named
the recuyell of the historyes of Troy, Printed
by William Caxton, 1473 Bib Name / NumberSTC
(2nd ed.) / 15375Copy from Henry E. Huntington
Library and Art Gallery
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Literature
The works of F. Rabelais, M.D., or, The lives,
heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and
Pantagruel done out of French by Sir Tho.
Urchard, Kt., and others. London Printed for
Richard Baldwin, 1694 Bib Number Wing /
R104 Copy from University of Illinois
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Science
Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions
of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses by
Robert Hooke, 1635-1703. London Printed for
James Allestry ... and are to be sold at his shop
..., 1667 Bib NumberWing / H2620 Copy from
Library of Congress
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Religion
The New Testament by Tyndale, William, d. 1536.
Cologne H. Fuchs?, 1525Bib Name / NumberSTC
(2nd ed.) / 2823Copy from British Library
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Geography Exploration
Historia mundi, or, Mercator's atlas by Gerhard
Mercator, 1512-1594. London Printed by T.
Cotes, for Michael Sparke, 1635Bib NumberSTC
(2nd ed.) / 17824.5Copy from Folger Shakespeare
Library
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Philosophy
The essayes or morall, politike and millitarie
discourses of Lo Michaell de Montaignedone into
English by... Iohn Florio Printed at London By
Val. Sims for Edward Blount dwelling in Paules
churchyard, 1603 Bib Number STC / 18041 Copy
from British Library Portrait from Essays of
Michael, seigneur de Montaigne in three books
London, 1685 Bib Number Wing / M2479 Copy
from Huntington Library
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Politics
Nicholas Machiavel's Prince by Machiavelli,
Niccolò, 1469-1527. London Printed by R.
Bishop, for Wil Hils, and are to be sold by
Daniel Pakeman at the signe of the Rainebow neare
the Inner Temple gate, 1640Bib Name / NumberSTC
(2nd ed.) / 17168Copy from British Library


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Law
Littleton's tenures in French and English. by
Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1481. London printed
by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry
Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins, and Edward
Atkins, Esquires. And are to be sold by George
Sawbridge, John Place, John Bellinger, William
Place, Thomas Basset, Robert Pawlet, Christopher
Wilkinson, Thomas Dring, William Jacob, Allan
Banks, Ch. Harper, John Amery, John Pool, John
Leigh, 1671Bib Name / NumberWing (2nd ed.) /
L2588Copy from National Library of Wales


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Medical Science
Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio, aere
exarata per Thomam Geminum. by Andreas Vesalius,
1514-1564. Londini In officina Ioanni
Herfordie, 1545Bib Name / NumberSTC (2nd ed.) /
11714Copy from British Library
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Art and Architecture
A booke of portraicture by Barbieri, Giovanni
Francesco, 1591-1666. London Sold by Godfrey
Richards ... neere the Royall Exchange, London,
1665Bib Name / NumberWing / B702Copy from
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
The whole body of antient and modern architecture
by Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676.
London Printed for J.P., sold by C. Wilkinson
etc., 1680Bib Name / NumberWing / C1924Copy
from British Library
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Music
Orpheus Britannicus, A collection of all the
choicest songs for one, two, and three voices by
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. London Printed by J.
Heptinstall for Henry Playford ..., 1698Bib Name
/ NumberWing / P4218Copy from Harvard
University Library
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Mathematics
The elements of geometrie of the most auncient
philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now
first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H.
Billingsley, citizen of London... Imprinted at
London By Iohn Daye, 1570Bib Name / NumberSTC
(2nd ed.) / 10560Bib Name / NumberThomas-Stanfor
d, C. Early eds. of Euclid's Elements, 41. /
Copy from Henry E. Huntington Library and Art
Gallery
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Education
A methode or comfortable beginning for all
vnlearned, whereby they may be taught to read
English, by Hart, John, d. 1574. Imprinted at
London By Henrie Denham, 1570Bib Name /
NumberSTC (2nd ed.) / 12889Copy from Folger
Shakespeare Library
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Non-Anglophone Works / Translations
François Cassandre, d. 1695 La rhetorique
D'Aristote traduite en Francois par seu M.
Cassandre. Nouvelle edition. Suivant la copie de
Paris A Londres chez Pierre de Varrennes,
demeurant dans le Strand proche la Savoye à la
Teste se Seneque, 1698 Bib Number Wing (CD-ROM,
1996) / A3696B Copy from University of Illinois
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Americana
The frame of the government of the province of
Pennsylvania in America by Penn, William,
1644-1718. London Printed, and Sold by Andrew
Soule at the Crooked- Billet in Holloway Lane in
Shoreditch, 1691Bib Name / NumberWing (2nd ed.)
/ P1293Copy from Friends' Library (London,
England)


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