JISC Historic Books is a database that provides access to scans of historic editions of books:
What does it contain?
BL 19th Century: Over 65, 000 recently digitised first editions from the British Library’s 19th century collection, comprising over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible titles.
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digital collection of more than 180,000 titles published in Great Britain and its colonies during the eighteenth century.
EEBO: Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains the scanned images, and plain text digital versions where available, of over 125,000 books published in English up to 1700.
Content from all three collections can be searched at once, or individual collections can be selected and browsed.
How to access the resource:
– Under E-resources on the English and Drama & Theatre subject guides.
OR
1. Go to The Databases A-Z guide on the library subject guides.
2. Go to J
3. Select JISC Historic Books
Help:
The Library has put together a basic video tutorial here:
And the website has its own Quick Reference Guide.