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What is EEBO?
"From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection contains over 96,000 titles
To access Early English Books Online (EEBO), click on the image above.
What is EEBO?
"From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection contains over 96,000 titles -- 230 years of English printing -- listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.
Early English Books seeks to be a comprehensive collection of all books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the English language in any country from earliest times through 1700."
*Note: EEBO contains only printed books; therefore, you will not find usage prior to 1473 (unless the printed books were written much earlier). Thus if your first hits on a word are in the 1470s or 1480s, this does not mean this is when the word first came into English.
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