Although many of the bibliographies listed below are incomplete and contain inaccuracies, they still provide some of the most comprehensive listings of titles published in Great Britain and the United States. A number of microform collections reproduce works described in the bibliographies. For additional information on bibliographies, see James Harner's Literary Research Guide (Ref PR83 .H34 shelved at the Reference Desk) or volume one of The Reader's Advisor (Ref Z1035 .R42).

Electronic Resources

American Book Prices Current
LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (CD-ROM 1240)

ABPC provides information on printed and manuscript material sold at public auction in a number of countries. ABPC-Books focuses on books, maps, broadsides, and other printed material. ABPC-A & Ms gives information on autographs, manuscripts, documents, signed photographs, and other material that is entirely or partly handwritten.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
LOCATION: Library Databases [restricted to UD]

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 is an ongoing project to digitize all American imprints from the 17th and 18th centuries, which were identified in the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and in the Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography by Roger Bristol. The University of Delaware Library currently holds, on microfiche, the complete Early American Imprints, 1639-1800, based on Evans and Bristol, and which constitutes the foundation of Evans Digital Edition. The microfiche collection was first published by Readex in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS).

Early English Books Online (EEBO) (1475-1700)
LOCATION: Library Databases [restricted to UD]

EEBO provides images of the original pages in many (more than 96,000) of the works listed in Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640 (STC I) and Donald Wing's Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641 to 1700 (STC II). EEBO also includes the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661.

The information is presented in the form of online images, as well as downloadable PDF copies. Users must have Adobe Acrobat or Reader in order to view the PDF documents. Adobe software is available on the Library's computers. Small-sized files can be printed page by page. Large files must be downloaded before they can be printed. To download all pages in a file, click in the box next to "Add this record to your Marked List" and click MARKED LIST in the brown bar at the top of the screen. Select "View a complete list of the Document Image sets available for this record to download in PDF format," then choose "Download entire document" or "Download range of document images."

EEBO is the electronic equivalent of the Early English Books, 1475-1640 and Early English Books, 1641-1700 microform collections (Microfilm S1 and Microfilm S1.5). (See information below under Pollard & Redgrave and Wing entries.) EEBO complements the microfilm collection. The digitized images were scanned from the microfilm. Higher-resolution images are available in the microfilm edition.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800)
LOCATION: Library Databases [restricted to UD]

The collection of digital images is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (see below), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide. ECCO offers digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, Eighteenth Century Collections Online allows researchers to access information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science, and other subject areas.

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) (1473-1800)
LOCATION: Library Databases [restricted to UD]

The ESTC contains descriptions of English or English-language letterpress materials published before 1801. The database includes records for items of all types published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English anywhere in the world from 1473 to 1800. The records provide extensive descriptions and holdings information. Use the Early English Books Online database (above) to obtain digitized images of books published in England from 1475 to 1700. Search Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access digitized images from 1701-1800. (It is important to note that ESTC was for many years the abbreviation for the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. ESTC numbers belong to this printed bibliography Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue.)

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (CD-ROM 611)

The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue database may be used for 19th-century bibliographic research due to the lack of a national or trade bibliography for this period.

The NSTC is a catalog of nineteenth-century imprints in English, wherever published, held by the the Bodleian Library, Oxford University; the University Library, Cambridge University; Trinity College Library, Dublin; National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; Harvard University Library; the British Library, London; the University Library, Newcastle; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. A guide to searching the NSTC electronic database is available on the Web at http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/engl/resguide/nstc.htm.

Check DELCAT by title or author for University of Delaware holdings of items listed in the NSTC. A small number of the items may be found in a microfiche collection called The Nineteenth Century (Microforms Area - Microfiche S306). The Library owns only a portion of The Nineteenth Century collection. Some, but not all, of these microfiche items are cataloged in DELCAT. An index to microfiche units 1-70 of The Nineteenth Century collection is available on CD-ROM (Microforms Area - CD-ROM 57).

Pollard, A.W. and G.R. Redgrave. A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640. Ed. by N.A. Jackson, F.S. Ferguson, and K.F. Pantzer. Oxford. 2d.ed. rev. and enl. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976-1986.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z2002 .P77 1976)

This work revises the original edition of the Short-Title Catalogue published in 1926. The RSTC is an indispensable source for identifying and locating extant works (and various editions, issues, variants, and impressions) of this time period. It provides bibliographic information on many works published or printed in the British Isles and books in English, Irish, or Welsh printed abroad from 1475-1640. Each entry, listed by author's name, has been given an STC number. Entries list up to five locations in Europe and five in North America. Most locations are institutions or libraries, although a few private collections are listed. For additional information on this bibliography, especially the indexes available to researchers, see the Literary Research Guide by James L. Harner, shelved behind the Reference Desk.

Many Pollard and Redgrave RSTC titles are available in full-text on the Early English Books Online database. Bibliographic citations from the RSTC are included in the English Short Title Catalogue database.

Many of the RSTC titles are available in a microfilm set called Early English Books #1 (Microforms Area - Film S1). Some of the titles are cataloged in DELCAT. If you move directly from the Pollard and Redgrave volumes to the microform set, note that some of the numbers in the RSTC have been changed and that the Early English Books #1 microfilm collection uses only the original STC numbers.

1641-1700

Wing, Donald Goddard and Timothy J. Crist. A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700. 2d.ed., rev. and enl. New York: Index Committee of the Modern Language Association of America, 1972-1988.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z2002 .W52)

A continuation of Pollard and Redgrave's work, the Wing Short-Title Catalogue is an enumerative bibliography of extant works printed in the British Isles and North America, and in English elsewhere in the world from 1641-1700.

Many Wing titles are included in the English Short Title Catalogue database.

A microform collection, Early English Books #2 (Film S 1.5), contains many (not all) of the works listed in Wing's Short-Title Catalogue. Some of the titles are cataloged in DELCAT.

Bibliographies Published in the United States

1492-1876

Sabin, Joseph, Wilberforce Eames, and R.W.G. Vail. Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time. (Completed 1868-1936.) Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1966.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1201 .S222)

Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana provides bibliographic information on publications related to the political, governmental, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of the Western Hemisphere from 1492-1876. There is an author-title index: John Edgar Molnar, comp. Author-Title Index to Joseph Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America (Ref Z1201 .S222). There is no subject index to Sabin's work. The Bibliotheca Americana was begun by Sabin in the mid-nineteenth century and was continued by Eames and Vail after his death.

Selected items from Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana have been published by the Gale Group's Primary Source Microfilm company in a microfilm collection called The Sabin Collection: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America. The University of Delaware Library does not own The Sabin Collection, although it does have a number of Sabin titles that have been published in other microfilm collections, such as the American Culture Series and the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature. Check DELCAT to see if a specific title is available. Because MARC records have been created for some Sabin items, searchers may be able to find them in WorldCat. There is an online guide to the Gale Group microfilm collection. Use these resources to request a Sabin title via interlibrary loan.

Thompson, Lawrence S., ed. The New Sabin: Books Described by Joseph Sabin and His Successors, Now Described Again on the Basis of Examination of Originals, and Fully Indexed by Title Subject, Joint Authors, and Institutions and Agencies . . . Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Pub. Co., 1974-[1981].
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1201 .T45)

The New Sabin is not a revision of Sabin's work. The entries consist of information copied from catalog cards rather than a personal examination of the original copies. The New Sabin is indexed cumulatively by subjects, titles, joint authors, and corporate authors. It offers useful, but limited, subject access to works about the Americas.

1639-1800

Evans, Charles. The American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America from the Genesis of Printing in 1639 Down to and Including the Year 1800; with Bibliographical and Biographical Notes. New York: P. Smith, 1941-59.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1215 .E92)

The American Bibliography attempts to list bibliographic information for all works published in America from 1639 through 1800. Entries are arranged chronologically and within each year, alphabetically by author. Each entry contains the book's full title, author's name, author's birth and death dates, date and place of publication, number of pages, size, and often the library holding a copy of the book. Clifford Shipton completed volume 13 for 1799-1800 and Roger Pattrell Bristol provided volume 14, the index, in The American Bibliography of Charles Evans (Microforms Area - Microfiche S269.2). Bristol's two-volume Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography (Microforms Area - Microfiche S269.3) and its index identified about 11,000 additional items. Each item in the Evans and Bristol volumes has been assigned a unique "Evans" number.

Items identified by Evans and his successors form the basis for a microfiche collection, Early American Imprints 1639-1800 (Microfiche S269). The University of Delaware Library holds this collection in its Microforms Area on the lower level. To identify the microfiche edition of each Evans or Bristol item, consult the Shipton National Index of American Imprints through 1800: The Short-Title Evans (Ref Z1215 .E922). The index identifies the microfiche editions by "Evans" number.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (see information above under databases) is an ongoing project to digitize all American imprints from the 17th and 18th centuries, which were identified in the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and in the Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography by Roger Bristol.

British Library. The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. London: British Library, 1990.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z2002.B75x 1990) INCOMPLETE SET Microform (vols. 1-2)

Although its coverage extends beyond Great Britain, the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue can be used for 18th-century bibliographic research due to the lack of a national or trade bibliography for this time period. The catalogue contains bibliographic records for publications printed from 1701 to 1800 in Great Britain or its colonies, as well as for English language publications printed anywhere in the world during that period. Each record describes an item and gives location codes for library holdings in Great Britain, North America, and elsewhere.

IMPORTANT to note that the University of Delaware Library does not have a complete set of the microfiche. Please use the English Short Title Catalogue. See Electronic Resources above.

Bibliographies published in the United States

1492-1876

Sabin, Joseph, Wilberforce Eames, and R.W.G. Vail. Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time. New York: 1868-1936.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1201 .S22)

Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana provides bibliographic information on publications related to the political, governmental, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of the Western Hemisphere from 1492-1876. There is an author-title index: John Edgar Molnar, comp. Author-Title Index to Joseph Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America (Ref Z1201 .S222). There is no subject index to Sabin's work. The Bibliotheca Americana was begun by Sabin in the mid-nineteenth century and was continued by Eames and Vail after his death.

Selected items from Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana have been published by the Gale Group's Primary Source Microfilm company in a microfilm collections called The Sabin Collection: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America. The University of Delaware Library does not own The Sabin Collection, although it does have Sabin titles which have been published in other microfilm collections, such as the American Culture Series and the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature. Check DELCAT to see if a specific title is available. Because MARC records have been created for selected items in The Sabin Collection, searchers may be able to find them in WorldCat. There is an online guide to the Gale Group collection. Use these resources to request a Sabin title via interlibrary loan.

Thompson, Lawrence S., ed. The New Sabin: Books Described by Joseph Sabin and His Successors, Now Described Again on the Basis of Examination of Originals, and Fully Indexed by Title Subject, Joint Authors, and Institutions and Agencies . . . Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Pub. Co., 1974-[1981].
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1201 .T45)

The New Sabin is not a revision of Sabin's work. The entries consist of information copied from catalog cards rather than a personal examination of the original copies. The New Sabin is indexed cumulatively by subjects, titles, joint authors, and corporate authors. It offers useful, but limited, subject access to works about the Americas.

The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (Series I and II). Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England: Avero; Cambridge, England; Alexandria, Virginia: Distributed by Chadwyck-Healey.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z2001 .N65 1984) and (Ref Z2001 .N66 1986 Series 2)

The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue may be used for 19th-century bibliographic research due to the lack of a national or trade bibliography for this period. Series I and II of the NSTC were published as printed volumes (Ref Z2001 .N65 1984 and Z2001 .N66 1986 Series 2). Series I, II, and III are available on CD-ROMs in the Student Multimedia Design Center.

Check DELCAT by title or author for University of Delaware holdings of items listed in the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. A small number of the items from The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue may be found in a microfiche collection called The Nineteenth Century (Microforms Area - Microfiche S306). The Library owns only a portion of the entire collection available. Some, but not all, of these microfiche items are cataloged in DELCAT. An index to microfiche units 1-70 of The Nineteenth Century collection is available on CD-ROM. (Microforms Area - CD-ROM 57).

Bibliographies published in the United States

1492-1876

Sabin, Joseph, Wilberforce Eames, and R.W.G. Vail. Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time. (Completed 1868-1936.) Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1966.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1201 .S222)

Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana provides bibliographic information on publications related to the political, governmental, economic, social, intellectual, and religious history of the Western Hemisphere from 1492-1876. There is an author-title index: John Edgar Molnar, comp. Author-Title Index to Joseph Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America (Ref Z1201 .S222). There is no subject index to Sabin's work. The Bibliotheca Americana was begun by Sabin in the mid-nineteenth century and was continued by Eames and Vail after his death.

Selected items from Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana have been published by the Gale Group's Primary Source Microfilm company in a microfilm collections called The Sabin Collection: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America. The University of Delaware Library does not own The Sabin Collection, although it does have Sabin titles which have been published in other microfilm collections, such as the American Culture Series and the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature. Check DELCAT to see if a specific title is available. Because MARC records have been created for selected items in The Sabin Collection, searchers may be able to find them in WorldCat. There is an online guide to the Gale Group collection. Use these resources to request a Sabin title via interlibrary loan.

Thompson, Lawrence S., ed. The New Sabin: Books Described by Joseph Sabin and His Successors, Now Described Again on the Basis of Examination of Originals, and Fully Indexed by Title Subject, Joint Authors, and Institutions and Agencies... Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Pub. Co., 1974-[1981].
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1201 .T45)

The New Sabin is not a revision of Sabin's work. The entries consist of information copied from catalog cards rather than a personal examination of the original copies. The New Sabin is indexed cumulatively by subjects, titles, joint authors, and corporate authors. It offers useful, but limited, subject access to works about the Americas.

1801-1819

Shaw, Ralph R. and Richard H. Shoemaker. American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1958-.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1215 .S48)

Shaw and Shoemaker continue the American national bibliography begun by Evans into the nineteenth century, identifying and listing chronologically by year over 50,000 works printed in America from 1801 through 1819. Each item is assigned a unique "Shaw-Shoemaker" number that identifies it in the microfiche collection based on the catalog (Early American Imprints, 1801-1819, Microforms Area - Microfiche S269.5). Many of the items are cataloged in DELCAT.

1820-Jan. 1861

Roorbach, Orville Augustus. Bibliotheca Americana: A Catalogue of American Publications, Including Reprints and Original Works, from 1820 [to Jan. 1861]. Together with a List of Periodicals Published in the United States. New York: P. Smith, 1939.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1215 .A48 1939)

Roorbach's bibliography is an author and title list of books published in the United States from 1820 to January 1861. Biographies are listed under subject, rather than author. Legal publications and periodicals occupy separate lists in the 1820-1852 volumes.

1820-1830

Shoemaker, Richard H. A Checklist of American Imprints [1820-1839]. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1964-.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1215 .S5)

The Checklist of American Imprints is a continuation of Shaw's American Bibliography, supplying more detailed information than Roorbach. Like Shaw, it devotes a volume to each year and lists entries alphabetically by author, corporate author, or title of an anonymous work; unlike Evans, its predecessor, it excludes serial publications. Author and title indexes have been compiled for entries from 1820-1829.

1830-1846

A Checklist of American Imprints. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1830-.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1215 .S52)

Continues: Shoemaker, Richard H. A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820-1830.

1861-1871

Kelly, James. The American Catalogue of Books (Original and Reprints). Published in the United States 1861 [to Jan. 1871]. With Date of Publication, Size, Price, and Publisher's Name. New York: P. Smith, 1938.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1215 .A49 1938)

The American Catalogue provides an author and title list that is designed to continue Roorbach's Bibliotheca Americana. Kelly includes some pre-1861 works that were omitted from Roorbach. The American Catalogue is incomplete--especially for works published in the South during the Civil War.

July 1876-1910

Leypoldt, Frederick. American Catalogue: Author and Title Entries of Books in Print and for Sale (Including Reprints and Importations), July 1, 1876 [-Dec. 31, 1910]. New York: P. Smith, 1941.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1215 .A5 1941)

Leypoldt's American Catalogue records books in print and for sale. Its entries are arranged by author, title, and subject.

Publisher's Weekly. Riverton, N.J.: R.R. Bowker Co., 1873-.
LOCATION: Morris Library (Z1219 .P84)

This is a weekly publication. The UD Library holds issues from 1920s to present. For indexing of older issues, see Book Review Index (Ref Z1035 .A1 B66), Book Review Digest (Ref Z1035 .A1 B65), or the Readers' Guide Retrospective database. The Expanded Academic ASAP Plus database provides full-text PW book reviews from April 1987 to present.

Cumulative Book Index. Minneapolis: H.W. Wilson.
LOCATION: Library Annex (Z1219 .C85)

Entitled The United States Catalog: Books in Print from 1898-1928, the CBI lists the books (in print) of many U.S. publishers. The University of Delaware Library holds volumes from 1912-1991.

Books in Print

Provides bibliographic descriptions and ordering information for over a million books currently in print, declared out of print, and soon-to-be-published titles from many publishers. The volumes were issued from 1948-72 as an author-title-series index to Publishers' Trade List Annual. Ask at the Reference Desk for assistance in obtaining retrospective cumulations of Books in Print from the Center for Research Libraries.

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