The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is the definitive guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The online version includes the entire Second Edition, and is continually updated with new words for the New Edition.The OED covers words from across the entire English-speaking world, and offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition. The database is searchable by author, title words, subject words, or identification number. Page images of each item may be viewed using AT&T's DjVu plugin Text may be downloaded for printing using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. (Not all texts may yet be available in PDF format.)
Date Coverage: 1475-1700
Materials Indexed: Book Chapters; Books
