resources

Unless otherwise noted, all online resources below are open access.

Catalogs and digital text collections:

Hamnet: Folger Library Catalog: http://shakespeare.folger.edu/

English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC): http://estc.bl.uk

Early English Books Online (EEBO): http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home (subscription only)

Database of Early English Playbooks (DEEP): http://deep.sas.upenn.edu/

British Printed Images to 1700: http://www.bpi1700.org.uk/index.html

English Broadside Ballad Archive: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/

Shakespeare Quartos Archive: http://www.quartos.org/

Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC): http://www.ustc.ac.uk/

Bibliothèque nationale de France: http://www.bnf.fr

Gallica (the digital collections of the BnF): http://gallica.bnf.fr

La biblioteca complutense (Universidad Complutense Madrid): http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/ayuda/27938.php

Colección digital dioscórides: http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/atencion/24063.php

El Buscón (Biblioteca Nacional de España): http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/ElBuscon/

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, University of Pennsylvania (SCETI): http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ (includes the Furness Shakespeare collection and the Schoenberg manuscript collection)

Primary research tools:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB): http://www.oxforddnb.com/ (subscription only)

Transcripts of the Stationers’ Registers, 1554-1640 and 1641-1708: http://clio.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6177070 and http://clio.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6177199 (links to pdfs of the volumes in Arber and in Eyre and Rivington)

British Book Trade Index (BBTI): http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/

McKerrow, Dictionaries of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014765203

Plomer, Dictionary of the Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1641-1667: http://archive.org/stream/adictionarybook01plomgoog and 1668-1725: http://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofprin00plomiala

Contents of British Literary Book Trade (1475-1700), eds James Bracken and Joel Silver (Gale Research, 1996)

Other useful resources for studying early modern books:

The Atlas of Early Printing: http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/

ABC for Book Collectors: http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/29-abc_for_book_collectors.html (link to pdf of the 8th edition of John Carter’s book, revised by Nicholas Barker)

Latin Place Names: http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/latin/index.html (from the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries)

CERL Thesaurus: http://thesaurus.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl (from the Consortium of European Research Libraries; a great resource for working out printers’ names and their many variants)

Web Resources for the Rare Books Cataloguer: http://lib.nmsu.edu/rarecat/ (from RBMS; includes helpful links for rare books researchers as well)

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME): http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ (open access, with advanced functions limited to subscribers)

Sites useful for teaching foreign emblems:

Resources on bookbindings:

paper:

printing: