GUIDE: British periodicals in the creative arts : an index to the microfilm collection. Access Services Department This set includes 71 periodicals and journals on music, art, drama, archaeology, architecture and dance. All the titles have been cataloged separately 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: Boyle, Andrew. An index to the annuals. B-30002 This is a microfiche set of the titles listed in Boyle. All the titles have been analyzed, and records appear in the Center's catalog.

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: British literary manuscripts from the British Library: an inventory to parts one and two of the Harvester microform collection, based on the Sloane and additional manuscripts series. This set includes material from the Sloane collection. Entries from the British Library’s catalogs of manuscripts precede each reel. Prominent works include four texts of The Canterbury Tales (Sloane 1685, 1686; Add. MSS. 5140, 35286), The Legende of Good Women (Add. MS. 12044), and Troilus and Cresseide (Add. MS.

This is a microcard set of 848 titles published in the 18th and 19th centuries. The works include histories, biographies, criticism, fiction, etc. All titles are cataloged separately in the Center's card catalog. This set continued beyond Series one; however, the Center cancelled its subscription after the completion of Series one because the project heavily duplicated materials in other collections.

This set includes 117 titles published 1500-1900 and compiled by the Speech Association of America. The collection emphasizes the elocutionary aspects of rhetoric. It contains texts on preaching, grammar, oratory, pronunciation and the art of criticism in fields such as law and religion. About two-thirds of the titles are British and written in English or Latin. The remainder are continental, written in Latin, French or Italian. The individual titles are cataloged in CRLCATALOG.

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.