Rare Books Resource Guide, page 3

Electronic resources

The following items are a selection of electronic materials that are available for research and study when you visit the Library. Most of these items can be accessed at computer workstations throughout the Library. Staff at any of the information desks can help you locate these resources.         

The illustrated ISTC on CD-ROM [electronic resource] : the illustrated incunabula short-title catalogue on CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (Reading, England : Primary Source Media in association with the British Library, c1998)
ZRS 011.42 IN6P
The Illustrated ISTC is the CDROM version of the Incunabula short-title catalogue, The British Library’s database of fifteenth century printing.    The IISTC enhances the usefulness of the database as a tool for bibliographic identification by attaching images of selected pages to the record for each incunable.   In his edition, around 20,000 images are attached to some 4,000 bibliographic records, about 15% of the incunabula in the database as a whole.  The principle behind selection of pages is first, to present all pages necessary for identification of the edition, and second, to indicate the basic structure and contents of the book. 

Online resources

This selection of links to key websites provides easy access to a broad range of additional resources for research and study.

The British Library  

http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation.html  
The British Library has already digitised a number of its greatest treasures and aims, increasingly, to make its manuscript and early printed collections, accessible online.

Bookfinder

http://www.bookfinder.com
A useful site to search for, and compare prices of, antiquarian books.