Rare Books Resource Guide, page 2

Print resources

The following items are a selection of key printed materials available in the Library. They can be located and, if necessary, requested through our online catalogue. These items will then be retrieved from storage and delivered to the book collection points in the La Trobe Reading Room or the Information Centre. Some original or rare items may be delivered to the Heritage Collections Reading Room.

A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 
First compiled by A. W. Pollard & G. R. Redgrave, 2nd ed. rev. & enl. (London : Bibliographical Society, 1976-1991)
SF 015.41 P76 
An indispensable resource for historians, literary scholars and bibliographers whose work involves printed sources before the Civil War.  As the title suggests, this multi-volume work lists British-printed books in any language whatsoever and books ‘in English’ wherever printed.  Although the term ‘book’ is generally used, all items bearing printed matter such as broadsides, small slips, and binding fragments are included.  Locations of extant copies are included.           

Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700.
Compiled by Donald Wing, 2nd ed., rev. and enl. (New York : Index Committee of the Modern Language Association of America, 1972-1994)
ZRS 015.41 W72S
A premier reference tool available to scholars, librarians and students of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.  This multi-volume work aimed to list all extant English books, pamphlets and broadsides printed between 1641 and 1700 inclusive.  By ‘English’ is meant all works printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America in any language, as well as all works printed anywhere else in English. Locations of extant copies are included.

The Eighteenth century short title catalogue [microform]  [2nd ed.] (London : British Library, 1990)
ZCA 018.144 B77E
This multi-volume work on microfiche describes material printed in Britain and her colonies, in any language, between 1701 and 1800.  It also covers material printed anywhere in the world in the English language between those dates.  Its aim is to provide a comprehensive bibliography of the national printed output of the eighteenth century, and also to list the whereabouts of surviving copies, so that researchers can find out not only what was printed, but also where to consult it.  It is compiled from the holdings of over one thousand libraries from all over the world, including Australian libraries.

The standard reference source for printed matter relating to Australia that appeared between 1784 and 1900.  The first part of this multi-volume work is chronologically arranged, covering all printed matter relating to Australia, wherever published, from 1784 to 1850.  The latter part extends from 1850 to the foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia, and is alphabetically arranged. Locations of extant copies are included.

Descriptive catalogue of medieval and renaissance western manuscripts in Australia  [by] K. V. Sinclair ([Sydney] Sydney University Press [1969])
S 016.091 SI6D
Lists and describes 11th to the 16th century manuscripts held in Australia, in libraries and in private collections.  Entries are by state, town and repository, arranged alphabetically. Within each collection, entries are arranged by date of acquisition, when known.

Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in Australian collections Margaret M. Manion and Vera F. Vines ; with a foreword by K.V. Sinclair (Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 1984)
SLT 759.94 M31M
Describes and discusses 96 illuminated manuscripts or fragments thereof in Australian collections, both public and private.  Byzantine, Italian, English, French, Franco-Flemish, Netherlandish, German and Spanish works are represented, ranging in date from the 11th to the 16th century. The entries are supplemented by more than three hundred illustrations, forty-eight of which are in colour.