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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Dr Peter White
Bibliothèque nationale de France
15 March 2006
Early English Books Online
‘The existence of Early English Books Online has
completely transformed my teaching as well as my
own scholarly life – both entirely for the better’
– Regius Professor Quentin Skinner
University of Cambridge
(source: JISC, The Joint Information Systems Committee
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=wakingup>)
Early English Books Online
‘Access to Early English Books Online (EEBO)
provides a classic example of how new technology
can rejuvenate traditional research. Extending
access to the resource has fundamentally changed
the way all of us can manage and maintain firstclass scholarly research.’
– Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Ideas
Royal Holloway, University of London
(source: JISC, The Joint Information Systems Committee
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_inform8#dtpo>)
EEBO in Europe
Germany – 143 institutions
United Kingdom – 70 institutions
Finland – 35 institutions
France – 13 institutions (CURA consortium)
Spain - 11 institutions
Republic of Ireland – 7 institutions
Italy – 2 institutions
Belgium – 1 institution
Editorial Principles
Bibliographic Sources
• A short-title catalogue of books printed in
England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English
books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (compiled by
A.W. Pollard & G.R. Redgrave)
• Short-title catalogue of books printed in England,
Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and
of English books printed in other countries, 16411700 (compiled by Donald Wing)
• The Thomason Tracts collection
- c.135,000 titles
Comprehensive Coverage, Instant Access
• 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
• Variant editions and multiple copies
• c.135,000 titles comprising approximately
20 million scanned pages
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
Coverage and Highlights
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 / Number:STC (2nd
ed.) / 15375
Copy from: Henry E.
Huntington Library and Art
Gallery
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
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 Number:Wing / H2620 Copy from: Library of Congress
Religion
[The New Testament] by William Tyndale, d. 1536. [Cologne : H. Fuchs?, 1525]
Bib Name / Number:STC (2nd ed.) / 2823
Copy from: British Library
Geography & Exploration
Historia mundi, or,
Mercator's atlas by
Gerhard Mercato, 15121594. London : Printed
by T. Cotes, for Michael
Sparke, 1635
Bib Number:STC (2nd
ed.) / 17824.5
Copy from: Folger
Shakespeare Library
Philosophy
The essayes or morall, politike
and millitarie discourses of Lo:
Michaell de Montaigne…done
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]
Politics
Nicholas Machiavel's Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli,
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,
1640
Bib Name / Number:STC (2nd ed.) / 17168
Copy from: British Library
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, 1671
Bib Name / Number:Wing (2nd ed.) /
L2588
Copy from: National Library of Wales
Medical Science
Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio,
aere exarata: per Thomam Geminum. by
Andreas Vesalius, 1514-1564. Londini : [In
officina Ioanni Herfordie, 1545
Bib Name / Number:STC (2nd ed.) / 11714
Copy from: British Library
Art and Architecture
A booke of portraicture by Giovanni Francesco
Barbieri, 1591-1666. [London] : Sold by Godfrey
Richards ... neere the Royall Exchange, London, 1665
Bib Number:Wing / B702
Copy from: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art
Gallery
The whole body of antient and modern
architecture by Roland Fréart, sieur de
Chambray, 1606-1676. London : Printed for
J.P., sold by C. Wilkinson [etc.], 1680
Bib Number:Wing / C1924
Copy from: British Library
Music
Orpheus Britannicus, A collection of all the choicest songs for one, two, and
three voices by Henry Purcell, 1659-1695. London : Printed by J. Heptinstall for
Henry Playford ..., 1698
Bib Name / Number:Wing / P4218
Copy from: Harvard University Library
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, 1570
Bib Name / Number:STC (2nd ed.) /
10560
Bib Name / Number:Thomas-Stanford,
C. Early eds. of Euclid's Elements, 41. /
Copy from: Henry E. Huntington Library
and Art Gallery
Education
A methode or comfortable beginning for
all vnlearned, whereby they may be
taught to read English, by John Hart, d.
1574. Imprinted at London : By Henrie
Denham, 1570
Bib Number: STC / 12889
Copy from: Folger Shakespeare Library
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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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Dr Peter White
Bibliothèque nationale de France
15 March 2006