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ENGLISH BOOKS, 1641-1700.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1961.
1786 reel(s)
Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, the collection includes books printed in Great Britain and elsewhere in English from 1641 to 1700. Books printed in America are excluded from this collection, which spans the tumultuous years of the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration. The material offers an historical perspective on an era that saw the rise of a mercantile class, the first English settlements in North America, and the development of secular philosophy and empirical science. Subject areas, such as the arts, the sciences, popular culture, and women's studies, are well represented.
Many filmed titles have records in Ellis Library's main card catalog and Special Collections' card catalog. Units 1-64 (reels 1-1733) are individually cataloged in MERLIN. An online tutorial is available at http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/barkera/earlymfilm.mht.
Guides:
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.
This provides access by the title of the work.
ENGLISH CARTOONS AND SATIRICAL PRINTS, 1320-1832, IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey Limited/Somerset House, 1978.
21 reel(s)
By the end of the eighteenth century, satirical engravings had become a highly popular form of literary entertainment. This collection contains reproductions of over five hundred years of those engravings which are located in the British Museum. The microfilm reproduces, in the same order, the cartoons and drawings described in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. At the beginning of each reel is a list of cartoons in the catalog that were omitted in the microfilm with an explanation for these omissions.
Guides:
British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum..
The guide contains a brief description of each cartoon and an index beginning with volume five. Reel one contains an index to the items listed in volumes one through four. The material, in both the catalog and microfilm, is arranged chronologically.
ENGLISH LITERARY PERIODICALS, 1681-1914.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1951.
English literary periodicals
969 reel(s)
Significant early journals, magazines, and reviews in this collection reflect British life and culture from 1681 to 1914. Important writers of the period, such as Defoe, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Johnson, Mill, Hunt, Lamb, Tennyson, and Eliot, contributed material or acted as editors. The collection begins with the earliest British periodical, published in 1681, and continues through the nineteenth century. Though predominately literary in nature, the periodicals also include debates, essays, and news summaries concerning politics and government in Great Britain. Topics covered include politics and government in Great Britain.
The periodicals have been cataloged separately and the microfilm reels are interfiled alphabetically by title with other microfilm periodicals. Ellis has units 1-22. An online tutorial is available at http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/barkera/earlymfilm.mht.
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Guides:
The guide describes each periodical and its subject matter. It includes a general subject, editor, and reel number index.
FOUR CENTURIES OF SPANISH DRAMA.
8000 plays.
Each play is cataloged.
Guides:
Thompson, Lawrence Sidney, 1916- A bibliography of Spanish plays on microcards, by Lawrence S. Thompson..
Franklin, James L. THE ARCHITECTONICS OF THE EPYLLION IN OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
1970.
HARPER AND BROTHERS ARCHIVES 1817-1914.
Teaneck, NJ: Chadwyck-Healy, 1982.
58 reel(s)
A general catalog of the collection is on reel 1 and an index is at the beginning of each major section.
FILM 4D21: 16:5-16:6
Guides:
Index to the archives of Harper and Brothers, 1817-1914.
Mira de Amescua, Antonio. PLAYS
53 reel(s)
81 titles.
Consult MERLIN for holdings. See also: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age and Four Centuries of Spanish Drama.
FILM 4D21: 24:1 - 24:3
Modern Language Association. REPRODUCTIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE PRINTED BOOKS.
New York: Modern Language Association,
14 reel(s)
The Library has selected titles only. Each title is listed in the card catalog.
FILM 4D21:14:5
Guides:
Modern Language Association of America. Reproductions of manuscripts and rare printed books..
Molina, Tirso de. VARIOUS PLAYS
7 reel(s)
100 titles.
Consult MERLIN for holdings. See also: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age.
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NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE OHIO VALLEY AND THE SOUTH.
Lexington, KY: Lost Cause Press,
450 card(s)
A Union List of Publications in Opaque Microforms by Eva Maude Tilton. pp. 449-472. Each title individually cataloged and classified separately.
Guides:
Tilton, Eva Maude. A union list of publications in opaque microforms..
PLAYS PRINTED AFTER 1640.
Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Institute,
9 reel(s)
Plays are listed by author and title in the card catalog. Partial contents are listed in contents note on main entry catalog card for the collection.
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PLAYS PRINTED BEFORE 1640.
1 reel(s)
Contains six plays: “The Tragedy of the Duchess of Malfy” by John Webster; London: Nicholas Okes for John Waterson; 1623. “Devil’s Law Case” by John Webster; London: A.M. for John Grismand; 1623. “Women Beware Women, A Tragedy” by Thomas Middleton; London: [n.p.]; 1657. “The Changeling” by Thomas Midleton [sic] and William Rowley; London: [n.p.]; 1653. “The Late Lancashire Witches” by Thomas Heywood and Richard Broome; London: Thomas Harper for Benjamin Fisher; 1634. “The Tragedy of Albertus Wallenstein, Late Duke of Fridland, and Generall [sic] to the Emperor Ferdinand the Second” by Henry Glapthorne; London: Thomas Paine for George Hutton; 1639. Also contains one published letter entitled “ A Letter Written by a Catholicke [sic] Gentleman, to the Lady Jane Clement, the Haulting Princess of the League” by Capitaine Viques; London: John Wolfe; 1590.
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POPULAR STAGE: DRAMA IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND. THE FRENCH PETTINGILL COLLECTION OF PLAYS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY SERIES ONE. PART ONE.
Brighton: Harvester Microform Publication, 1985.
22 reel(s)
330 plays.
A guide to the collection is on reel one. Each play is individually cataloged in MERLIN. An uncataloged guide is available in the Special Collections office.
Guides:
POPULAR STAGE: DRAMA IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND. THE FRENCH PETTINGILL COLLECTION OF PLAYS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY SERIES ONE. PART ONE.
Brighton: Harvester Microform Publication, 1985.
22 reel(s)
Ser. 1. Manuscript and typescript plays: pt. 1. From "Abarbanel the Hebrew" to "Exit by mistake." pt. 2. From "A fable of the Fenians" to "My uncle's pet." pt. 3. From "Naomi the Gipsy girl" to "The swindler." pt. 4. From "The Taylor of Eisbach" to "Zulema the Circassian beauty."
A guide to the collection is on reel one, and each play is catalogued in MERLIN individually.
Guides:
RALPH WALDO EMERSON COLLECTION, 1822-1903.
East Ardsley, Yorkshire, England: Microform Academic Publishers, 1999.
British Records Relating to America in Microfilm
2 reel(s)
In November of 1847, the American writer and Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson began a lecture tour of Britain. One of the key coordinators of the visit was Alexander Ireland, a resident of Manchester and a great admirer of Emerson. Throughout his career, Ireland assembled an impressive collection of Emerson's work as well as the publications of Emerson's intellectual peers and contemporaries like Thomas Carlyle, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, and William Hazlitt. He also kept clippings from newspaper and magazine articles on Emerson and records related to the 1847-48 lecture tour. Upon his death the collection was presented to the Manchester Free Reference Library as the Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection.
Guides:
Harding, Brian. The Ralph Waldo Emerson collection, 1822-1903 : a brief introduction to the microfilm edition of the Ralph Waldo Emerson collection.
The guide contains a brief account of the introduction and friendship between Emerson and Alexander Ireland upon Emerson’s visits to England, contents of the two reels, and bibliological notes.
REPERTOIRE BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DES AUTERUS LATINS PATRISTIQUES ET MEDIEVAUX.
Paris: Chadwyck-Healey, 1987.
492 fiche
REVISTAS HISPANOAMERICANA.
Cambridge, MA: General Microfilm Company,
Titles are individually cataloged in MERLIN. An uncataloged guide is available in the Special Collections office.
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Guides:
Leavitt, Sturgis E. (Sturgis Elleno), b. 1888. Revistas hispanoamericanas : índice bibliográfico, 1843-1935.
ROXBURGHE CLUB OF LONDON PUBLICATIONS ROXBURGHE CLUB OF LONDON PUBLICATIONS.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
28 reel(s)
206 titles.
A catalog of the Collection is on reel 1. Each title is cataloged and listed in MERLIN.
RUSSIAN FUTURISM 1910-1916: POETRY AND MANUSCRIPTS.
Teaneck, NJ: Chadwyck-Healy,
77 fiche
An uncataloged contents list is available in the Special Collections office. Each title is individually cataloged. Also useful is NC985 .C65 The World Backwards by Susan Compton.
Guides:
Compton, Susan P. The world backwards : Russian futurist books, 1912-16.
Schubarth, Karl Ernst. LETTER OF SCHUBARTH TO GOETHE.
1820.
1 reel(s)
Schubarth (1796-1861) wrote this long, handwritten letter in German on Oct. 17-18, 1820, to his fellow philosopher. Includes a “Beilage” at the end dated Oct. 20, 1820, entitled “Uberblick der Motive der Zueignung und des Vorspiels in Faust.”
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SPANISH DRAMA OF THE GOLDEN AGE 1500-1700.
Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications,
86 reel(s)
3200 titles
Each title is cataloged in MERLIN.
FILM 4D21: 15:2-3
Guides:
Regueiro, José M. Spanish drama of the golden age; a catalogue of the comedia collection in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
SPANISH RARE BOOKS OF THE GOLDEN AGE (1472-1700) ITEMS 1-1301
Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1985.
204 reel(s)
1800 titles.
Guides:
Spanish rare books of the golden age : guide to the microfilm collection..
Stevens, Wallace. WALLACE STEVENS-CUMMINGTON PRESS CORRESPONDENCE, 1941-1951.
Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 1992.
British records relating to America in microfilm
1 reel(s)
Reproduced in this collection is the correspondence between American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) and Katharine Frazier and Harry Duncan of the Cummington Press. This correspondence documents Stevens's compositional methods and the reception of his poems as well as provides a picture of business relations during that time period. Also included in the collection is the original typescript of the first edition of Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction with emendations by Stevens. Stevens, considered one of the major modern American poets, was also a vice-president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Corporation of Hartford, CT, two lives that he consciously kept separate. His first book of poems, Harmonium, was published in 1923, but he was not widely recognized until his Collected Poems was published in 1954. Much of his poetry, including his long poem "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," involves his working out the interrelatedness of reality and the imagination and the role of poetry. Located in Cummington, Massachusetts, the Cummington Press was founded in 1939 by Harry Duncan as part of the Cummington School of the Arts. Using a hand printing press, the press became known as one of the finest small presses in the country. Stevens's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction was published in 1942 and Esthetique du Mal in 1945.
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Guides:
Guide includes detailed inventory of letters and introduction by Carolyn Masel.
THREE CENTURIES OF DRAMA
New Canaan, CT: Readex Corporation,
This set contains all available first editions and important subsequent editions of the important and minor English plays from 1500 to 1800, and American plays from the beginning of American drama to 1830. The set also includes foreign plays which were adapted into English. The English titles are grouped into Elizabethan plays, 1515-1641; Restoration plays, 1642-1700, early eighteenth century plays, 1701-1750; and late eighteenth century plays, 1751-1800. There is also a group of the Larpent Collection of Manuscripts, 1737-1800 which are located at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Museum. Finally, the American plays are dated 1714-1830.
Each play is individually catalogued. Consult MERLIN by author or title.
Guides:
Bergquist, G. William. Three centuries of English and American plays, a checklist. England: 1500-1800, United States: 1714-1830..
Trinity College (University of Cambridge) Library MEDIAEVAL MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION INCLUDING SOME POST-MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS SECTION V. LITERATURE. PART A. GENERAL. PART B. THE GREEK AND LATER CLASSICS.
London: World Microfilms Publications, 1979.
61 reel(s)
235 titles.
An uncataloged guide, Trinity College, Cambridge. The Mediaeval Manuscript Collection, is available in the Special Collections office.
Guides:
Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library. The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge. A descriptive catalogue by Montague Rhodes James..
TWO CENTURIES OF DRAMA: AMERICAN 1714-1830.
New Canaan, Ct: Readex Corporation, 1963.
327 card(s)
Each play is individually cataloged in MERLIN.
Guides:
Bergquist, G. William. Three centuries of English and American plays, a checklist. England: 1500-1800, United States: 1714-1830..
Vandamm, Florence. VANDAMM COLLECTION.
Teaneck, NJ: Somerset House, 1980.
827 fiche
26,000 photos
Guides:
New York theatre, 1919-1961 : [handlist of stage productions in the Vandamm Collection]..
Vega, Lope de. ALEJANDRO EL SEGUNDO.
1630.
1 reel(s)
Vega (1562-1635), a novelist, poet, and playwright, is considered to be the greatest dramatist in the Spanish language. He wrote as many as 1,500 plays, at least 350 of which survive today. A contemporary of Shakespeare, he rivals the Bard in variety of characters, tone, and subject matter. This work is a comedy written in Vega’s own hand, and the original is located in Parma, Italy, in the Biblioteca Palatina.
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Vega, Lope de. PLAYS
18.
130 titles
Consult MERLIN for holdings.
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WALT WHITMAN COLLECTION.
East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England: Microform Academic Publishers, 2001.
British records relating to America in microform
12 reel(s)
The Walt Whitman Collection (1880-1948) consists primarily of correspondence between members of the Bolton Whitman Fellowship and with other English and North American Whitmanites, correspondence with Whitman himself, addresses and lectures composed by various members of the group, journal and newspapers articles, and photographs. Whitman (1819-1892), noted American journalist, essayist, and poet, garnered a loyal following in Britain, especially in Bolton, Lancashire where James William Wallace (1853-1926) and a group of educated working class and lower middle class admirers met as the "Eagle Street College" (later known as Bolton Whitman Fellowship) to discuss literary works, especially Whitman's poetry, and social and political issues. The group was drawn to Whitman by the revolutionary, democratic ideas in his essays and poetry. Other figures prominent in the collection include John Johnston, Charles Frederick Sixsmith, and Edward Carpenter. This collection will be of interest to scholars studying Whitman, the reception of Whitman's poetry, early British socialism, and utopian visionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The original material is held at the John Rylands University Library Manchester, England.
Guides:
Masel, Carolyn. The Walt Whitman collection : introduction to the microfilm edition.