EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS, 1641-1700 (WING)

English books, 1641-1700.
Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1961- .Lower Level Film 1297
The Library stopped receiving microfilm with Unit 110, reel number 2612, though we have continued to receive the printed guides that come with the units in Reference. We assume that records for most single items in units 1-64 (reels 1 through 1733) have been added to the online catalog.

Online Access: Early English Books Online (EEBO)

(Note: As of December 2008, Units 1-129 are available full-text online.)

Scope:

This series carries forward the filming of English books based on the bibliography by Wing, who intended his work as a continuation of Pollard and Redgrave's. The scope and method are approximately the same as the earlier work.

Not all items in Wing are being filmed: "Separate prints of the Bible, separate statutes and proclamations, American imprints in Evans, Baptist books listed by Whitley, and later prints of books first listed before 1641 will be omitted. Selections will be made from almanacs, sermons, liturgical works, Quaker tracts, and Irish and Scottish official publications." (Preface to Index)

Arrangement:

Entries in the bibliography are numbered consecutively within each letter of the alphabet, e.g. Al-A4316, B1-B64232, to avoid the unwieldy numbers resulting from one numerical sequence throughout the bibliography. The books are filmed by University Microfilms (UMI) in units and are arranged alphabetically (which is also Wing number order) by author or title entry within each unit. UMI publishes a guide to each unit and cumulates the unit guides periodically. If a Wing number does not appear in the latest Cross Index, the title it represents has not yet been filmed.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES/GUIDES:

Wing, Donald Goddard, comp.
Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. 2d ed., newly revised and enlarged. 4 vols. New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1972-1998. REF Z2002 W76+ 1972 (vol. 1 labeled '1994')
Arranged alphabetically by title and/or author. Vol. 4 contains an index of printers, publishers, and booksellers, as well as a chonological index of non-London publishers. No subject index.

Allison, Antony Francis.
Titles of English books (and of foreign books printed in England): an alphabetical finding-list by title of books published under the author's name, pseudonym or initials. Folkestone, England, Dawson, 1976-1977. v. 2, 1641-1700.REF Z3003 P771+ 1976 v. 2

Early English books, 1641-1700, selected from Donald Wing's short-title catalogue: a guide to the microfilm collection. Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International.REF Z2002 U583

_________ : a cross index to the microfilm collection.REF Z2002 U5831
Lists of Wing numbers cross-referenced to UMI reel numbers. Three cross indexes exist so far: for reels 1-40, 41-56, and 57-86. This last was issued in the Fall of 1993.

Morrison, Paul G.
Index of printers, publishers, and booksellers in Donald Wing's Short-Title Catalogue...1641-1700. Charlottesville, VA, Univ. of Virginia Press, 1955. REF Z2002 W76 A1+

Smith, Hilda L. and Susan, Cardinale, comps.
Women and literature of the Seventeenth century. An annotated bibliography based on Wing's Short-title Catalogue. New York, Greenwood, 1990. REF Z2002 S66
In two parts: publications by women, and works for and about women ("as well as material mistakenly attributed to women but likely written by men" - Pref.). Each section arranged alphabetically by author or title. Subject access through a general index.

University Microfilms International.
English books, 1641-1700: a cumulative index to units 1- 60 [reels 1-1662] of the microfilm collection. Ann Arbor, University Microfilms, 1990.REF Z2002 U5933+
The index consists of nine volumes: Vols. 1.-2, Author index; Vols. 3-5, Title index; Vols. 6-8, Subject index; Vol. 9, Wing number and Reel Position Indexes.

RELATED SETS:

Early English Books, 1475-1640
The Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661.
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