Research Guides: ENGL 3318: Literature as Data: Printing, Printers, & Publishing

Research Databases

Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
History of English thought from the first book printed in English, 1475-1700, full-text
Early European Books 1-15 This link opens in a new window
History of printing in Europe from circa 1450s-1700, full-text
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text of many historical books, including:
- Printers' & publishers' devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640
- A transcript of the registers of the worshipful Company of Stationers; from 1640-1708 A.D.
Current SMU students and employees with documented print disabilities are eligible to access additional materials in HathiTrust. Contact libraryaccess@smu.edu for more information.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Bibliography drawn from medieval & renaissance journals
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes: English Literary Renaissance, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, SEL: Studies in English Literature, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, the Huntington Library Quarterly.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Fulltext scholarly journals covering various topics

The History of the Book in the West
Call Number: General Stacks, Blue Z4 .H57 2010
Provides a comprehensive resource of the most significant published papers on book history in the West.
Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775
Call Number: General Stacks, Blue Z151 .D54
The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
Call Number: General Stacks, Blue Z473 .C686 2000
The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
A transcript of the registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, from 1640-1708 A.D.
Call Number: General Stacks, Blue Z2002 .S791

CERL Thesaurus accessing the record of Europe's book heritage
Contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, personal names and corporate names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century - including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and fictitious names.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks
Allows scholars and students to investigate the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama in ways not possible using any other print or electronic resource.
EARLY PRINTED BOOKS resources for learning and teaching
Listing of digital facsimiles representing major early manuals on how to print; many of them contain diagrams of various impositions used in the period.
Golden Compasses(1969-1972)–Leon Voet The History of the House of Plantin-Moretus
Book with TEI from De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL)
LUNA: Folger Shakespeare Library's Bindings Image Collection

Early English Text Society (Series). by Early English Text Society.
Call Number: 820.8 E12
Publication Date: 1864
Reprints of hundreds of early English texts. Includes the "original series," the "extra series," and the "second series"