Early American Imprints
Early American Imprints is a digital and microopaque card collection produced by Readex. It is based on Charles Evan's American Bibliography. Ralph R. Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's collaborative efforts continued American Bibliography. ''American Bibliography'' contains the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States from 1639 through 1819, some 72,000 titles. It is now also available in electronic form as part of the Readex .
History
The microprint edition was undertaken by the American Antiquarian Society in 1955 and edited by Clifford K. Shipton, then director of the Society. The extensive collection of early American imprints in the Society's library provided a substantial number of the imprints that were filmed. Many other major libraries in the United States and Europe also made texts available and provided editorial corrections to the original bibliographic work of Charles Evans. The series is available in two parts:- Early American Imprints: Series I Evans, 1639–1800,
- Early American Imprints: Series II Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801–1819
Library Holdings
United States
Many major research libraries, and some public libraries hold the series, including:- Harvard University
- Library of Congress See:
- Columbia University
- Cornell
- New York Public Library
- Arizona State University
- Wayne State University