The British Library Incunabula Short Title Catalogue currently lists about 28, 100 different editions of surviving books, pamphlets and broadsides ( some fragmentary only ) printed before 1501, of which about 8, 600 are folios, representing just over 30 percent of all works in the catalogue.
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As bibliographical projects such as VD 16, VD 17, and English Short Title Catalogue, have a more narrow national or regional focus, meta-bibliographical tools such as PRDL and Early Modern Thought Online play a vital role in facilitating scholarship in the rapidly changing technological landscape.
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Earlier printing had been covered to 1640 by G . R . Redgrave's " Short Title Catalogue " ( 2nd edn, 1976 91 ), and from 1641 to 1700 by Donald Goddard Wing's similarly titled bibliography ( 1945 51, with later supplements and addenda ).
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He was president of the Bibliographical Society of London in 1908, and with Alfred W . Pollard edited the STC, or " A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475 & ndash; 1640 " ( 1926 ).
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Goff was a prolific author of scholarly works on incunabula, magnum opus " is " Incunabula in American Libraries : A Third Census of Fifteenth-century Books Recorded in North American Collections " ( New York : Bibliographical Society of America, 1964 ) which later formed the basis for the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.
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"' Lady Isabel's Tragedy, "'or " The Lady Isabella's Tragedy; or, The Step-Mother's Cruelty " is a Broadside Ballad, which dates from, by estimation of the English Short Title Catalogue, as early as 1672 and as late as 1779 suggesting its popularity and positive reception.
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He made a significant contribution to the field of Canadian bibliography, publishing a number of bibliographies and bibliographic tools, most notably his four-volume " Contributions to a Short-Title Catalogue of Canadiana " ( 1971 1973 ), " The Arctic Bibliography ", and " Contributions to a Dictionary of Canadian Pseudonyms " ( 1973 ).
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Drawing heavily on the data gathered for the USTC, this suggests that to understand the impact of print we must look beyond the most notable and celebrated books of the day, and consider the more mundane projects that underpinned the economics of the print era-the'cheap print'of pamphlets and broadsheets, many of which are documented for the first time in the Universal Short Title Catalogue.
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Thus, for example, Thomas Heywood's biography of Queen Elizabeth I, " Englands Elizabeth " ( 1631 ), was, according to its title page, " printed by Iohn Beale, for Phillip Waterhouse; and are to be sold at his shop at St . Pauls head, neere London stone "; and the " English Short Title Catalogue " lists over 30 books published between 1629 and the 1670s with similar references to London Stone in the imprint.
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Work continued on the catalogue and the second edition was published in four volumes : " Short-title Catalogue of Books printed in England, Scotland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 "; compiled by Donald Wing . 2nd ed ., newly rev . and enl . / revised and edited by John J . Morrison and Carolyn W . Nelson, editors, and Matthew Seccombe, assistant editor . 4 vols.
