Early American Imprints 1639-1800

Microform Collection

Location: Microfiche Cabinet 21

Scope: Early American Imprints  is a microfiche collection of all known existing books, pamphlets and periodical publications printed in the United States from 1639-1800. It is based on the print compilation called American Bibliography by Charles Evans (Micro Reference Z 1215 E923) and the Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography by  Roger P. Bristol (Micro Reference Z 1215 E92334).

Some of the newspapers and periodicals were excluded from the microfiche collection.

Pickler Library has the First Series of Early American Imprints on microfiche. The library also has full-text access to

How to search the collection: All of the Early American Imprints are cataloged in Truman's Library Catalog  and can be searched by author, title, keyword or subject. The Library Catalog record gives the location as Microfiche Cabinet 21 as well as the microfiche card number you will need.

Guides:
Evans, Charles. American Bibliography. New York: Peter Smith, 1941. (Micro Reference Z 1215 E923). 
This is the main bibliography for the Early American Imprints. It is a chronological list of all the books, pamphlets and periodical publications printed in the United States from 1639-1800.  Evans was able to complete the bibliography up to the letter M and 1799.

Bristol, Roger P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography. Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia, 1970. (Micro Reference Z 1215 E92334).
This supplement completes Charles Evans' American Bibliography up to 1800.

Shipton, Clifford K. and James E. Mooney. National Index of American Imprints through 1800 the Short-Title Evans. Worchester, Ma.: American Antiquarian Society, 1969. (Micro Reference Z 1215 E925)
This bibliography includes the titles in  Evans American Bibliography and 10,035 additional titles.

Bristol, Roger P. Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers Indicated by Charles Evans in his American Bibliography. Charlottesville, Va: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1961 (Micro Reference Z 1215 E9233).

Early American Imprints 1639-1800 Evans Checklist. New Canaan, CT.: Readex, date? (on top of Microfiche Cabinet 21)
This is a list which gives the number of microfiche for each entry in Evans American Bibliography.  Entries that have an *  are missing from the microfiche collection. 

Hixon, Donald L. Music in early America: a bibliography of music in Evans.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1970. (General Collection ML 120 U5 H6)
This is an index to the music published in seventeenth and eighteenth century America as represented by Charles Evans' American Bibliography.

For more information about this subject in our Library Catalog, check out these
Subject Categories:

Time Period: 17th Century  18th Century

Subject keywords:  Literature, U. S. History

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