Historical Books: Overview

"Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom."

Based on the renowned Goldmith's-Kress collection, this follows the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Access to more than 61,000 books, many of which are unique. Parts 1, 2 and 4.

Drawn from Joseph Sabin's famed nineteenth century bibliography Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time. This digital collection offers a perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. Includes more than 65,000 volumes about North, Central, and South America and the West Indies.

Over 20,000 British and U.S. Legal Treatises.

Includes Anglo-American published trial transcripts, popular printed accounts, reports and other available material.

This collection gathers together over 2,700 titles across nearly 3,500 individual volumes, that address issues in the realms of foreign and comparative law

Over 20,000 legal treatises, reports, histories and other genres. Notably, it includes many books from the mid-20th century and later, unlike most other databases.

Encompasses prose fiction written by Americans from colonial times to the early twentieth century. Includes nearly all of the works found in Lyle H. Wright’s American Fiction: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography.

A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2887 texts included, and this bibliography is considered the most comprehensive available for American adult literature of this period.

the most comprehensive collection of the theater-related works printed in America up to 1819. Importantly, it includes both American and foreign authors, providing scholars with not only the works created by Americans but also the foreign works that Americans read—and were influenced by—during this era. It contains more than 2,000 works from all genres—from historical plays to amateur productions, melodramas, pantomimes, comedies, farces, satires, musicals, and operas.

More than 4700 plays published in the United States during the 1800s

The collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the library of Victor Amadeus. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important archives of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere--including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more.

Contains more than 500,000 primary works from around the world–-including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and multiple formats including prose, poetry and drama. Coverage mainly from 17th-20th centuries.