GUIDE: American fiction. Z1033.M6A522 Wright, Lyle Henry. American fiction, 1774-1850; a contribution toward a bibliography. Z1231.F4W91 Wright, Lyle Henry. American fiction, 1851-1875; a contribution toward a bibliography. Z1231.F4W92 Wright, Lyle Henry. American fiction, 1876-1900; a contribution toward a bibliography. Z1231.F4W93 About 12,000 titles are included in this microfilm set. The set is also known as American fiction. The Center has purchased analytics for all titles in the set; these records appear in CRLCATALOG.

This is a continuing project consisting of two parts: English and American drama of the 19th century . It is the micropublisher's attempt to reproduce every play published during the 19th century. The reproductions are in microprint and fiche. The microprint titles are cataloged in CRLCATALOG with entries for over 3,500 American and 7,300 English plays. The final, complete collection of English and American plays should include 30,000-35,000 titles; 2,000-3,000 titles are produced each year. The expected completion date of the set is 1998.

American plays published from 1831 to 1900 are included. The basic reference authorities for the titles include the following: Quin, Arthur. American drama from the beginning to the Civil War. Roden, Robert. Later American plays, 1831-1900. A Checklist of American drama published in the English colonies of North America and the United States.

This is a microcard set of literary, historical and cultural books of the 19th century. This is a continuing series; however, the Center cancelled its subscription to it, after receiving about 800 titles, because the project heavily duplicated materials in other collections. All of the titles received have been analyzed, and records appear in the Center's catalog.

Northwestern University transferred to the Center its collection (approximately 5,000 volumes in original format) of English and American fiction of the later 19th and early 20th centuries. These are lesser-known works by important authors or works by minor writers. The Center is cataloging these titles, and eventually records for all will be in the Center's catalog.

GUIDE: Evans, Charles. American bibliography. National index of American imprints through 1800. Z1215.E923A5 The Center owns only the monographs in the set. It includes approximately 42,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the United States from 1639 through 1800. The titles in the set have not been analyzed by the Center, but can be verified in the bibliographies upon which it is based.

GUIDE: Dime novels : escape fiction of the nineteenth century : guide to the microfilm collection. D-14742 This is a microfilm set of over 3,000 novels published by Beadle and Adams. The Center has purchased analytics for all titles in Units 1-7; these records appear in CRLCATALOG.

GUIDE: American culture, 1493-1875 : an index to the Bibliography of American culture, 1493-1875, and the microfilm collection. B-24935 The set includes approximately 5,600 works published before 1876, and important for an understanding of American culture. Most of the titles are in English and were written and published in the United States. Selected and compiled in the mid-1950s by the Committee on Microfilm Bibliography of the American Studies Association (edited by David R.

GUIDE: Thompson, Ralph. American literary annuals and gift books, 1825-1865. Z6520.G4T5 This set includes 469 souvenir volumes. The titles are important for the book design and decoration techniques employed by publishers and for their sentimental content representing a prevailing national perception of antebellum and Civil War era America. In addition, the gift books included the works of then-unknown and often lastingly obscure authors as well as minor works by Hawthorne, Poe, Stowe and Emerson. All the titles in this set have been analyzed, and records appear in the Center's catalog.

GUIDE: American periodicals 1741-1900; an index to the microfilm collections. Z1033.M6H789 This is a microfilm set of periodicals published in the United States from 1741 through the early part of the 20th century. It is comprised of three series: Series I, 1741-1800; Series II, 1801-1850; and, Series III, 1850-1900: Civil War and Reconstruction. The series document the origins of American magazine journalism and the boom in periodical publishing that took place between 1825 and 1850.