The following are selected links to external websites maintained by libraries, bibliographical societies, universities and other institutions working with Western early printed materials.
Bibliographical Organisations and Projects
- The Bibliographical Society (British society for the history of the book)
- The Bibliographical Society of America
- The Bibliographical Society of Canada
- The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.)
- Britain in Print (resources based on pre-1700 British printed books)
- Consortium of European Research Libraries
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (international)
- Rare Books & Special Collections Group (CILIP) (UK)
- Library & Information History Group (CILIP) (UK)
- Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, ALA (USA)
- Library of Congress Center for the Book (Washington, DC)
- HoBo (History of the book at Oxford)
- British Book Trade Index (at the University of Birmingham, England)
- Scottish Book Trade Index (at the National Library of Scotland)
- British Armorial Bindings (at the University of Toronto, Canada)
Major Rare Book Libraries in Britain and Ireland
- National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
- Bodleian Library at the Oxford University
- Durham University Library : Special Collections
- Glasgow University Library : Department of Special Collections
- John Rylands University Library (Manchester) : Special Collections
- King's College London : Special Collections
- Leeds University Library : Special Collections
- National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London)
- St Bride Printing Library, London
- Science Museum Library
- Trinity College Library (Dublin)
- Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : Library (London)
Libraries Worldwide with Major Collections of Early English Books
- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
- Harvard University : Houghton Library
- Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
- Library of Congress : Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room
- National Library of Canada : Rare Book Collection
- New York Public Library : Rare Books Division
- Newberry Library, Chicago
- Yale University : Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Selected Resource Centres for Period Studies
- The Labyrinth : Resources for Medieval Studies (from Georgetown University, USA)
- Eighteenth-Century Resources (from Rutgers University, USA)
- Victoriana on the Web (from the publishers of the 'Victorian Database Online')
Further information
Early Printed Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7564
Fax: +44 (0)20 7412 7691
E-mail: rare-books@bl.uk
