English Short Title Catalogue now free.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-30 October 2006-BRITISH LIBRARY: English Short Title Catalogue now free(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30102006 'As people explore the immense resources of the ESTC ever more widely, so we understand ever more fully the significance of printing to all aspects of the English-speaking world between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries.

As a resource it is simply matchless.' David McKitterick, University of Cambridge The essential resource for historians, English language and literature scholars, and all those interested in early printed books, periodicals and ephemera, the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) provides bibliographic records for all known British printed material before 1801, held by the British Library and over...