Access to an archive of over 300,000 books published in England before 1800, and 65,000 19th century books from the British Library collection never seen before. Part of JISC eCollections.

JISC Historic Books

  • Vic Lyte (Mimas Senior Manager)
    Roscoe Building (5th Floor)
    The University of Manchester
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    Manchester
    M13 9PL

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Access to an archive of over 300,000 books published in England before 1800, and 65,000 19th century books from the British Library collection never seen before. Part of JISC eCollections.

This historically significant collection includes the scanned images and (increasingly) full-text digital versions of over 125,000 books published in English up to 1700, 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.

The archive brings together:

  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)
    The scanned images and (increasingly) full-text digital versions of over 125,000 books published in English up to 1700, 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.

  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
    A digital collection of all the books published in Great Britain and its colonies during the eighteenth century, comprising some 33 million pages from more than 180,000 titles. The collection includes books in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and Welsh. 

  • Nineteenth Century books from the British Library collection
    Digitised versions of more than 65,000 first editions from the 19th century, covering philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The collection extends to over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible content, and includes the original typeface and illustrations for each book.


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