Early American Imprints, Series 1: Evans, 1639-1800

This collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside printed in early America over a 160-year period.

Based on Charles Evans’ renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol’s supplement, Series I includes more than 36,000 printed works, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.

Topics covered include agriculture, astronomy, capital punishment, child rearing, commerce, education, foreign affairs, geography, Indians, masonry, medicine, military operations, missionaries, religious thought, slavery, suffrage, temperance, trials, witchcraft, women, yellow fever and thousands more.