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Database information for Eighteenth Century Collections Online

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• Coverage: 1701-1800
• Type(s) of Content: Full Text
• Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities ; General ; Science and Medicine ; Social Sciences
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• Short Description:
  Online collection of English and foreign language books and pamphlets published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800, presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents.
• Annotation:
  Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world's largest library of the printed book on microfilm. Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Search every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.