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Historical Texts

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Scope

Contains the full text or page images of over 460,000 books published in England before 1900.

Brings together the following collections:

ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
EEBO (Early English Books Online)
Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library Collection
UK Medical Heritage Library (freely available)

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