Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 is a digitized collection of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639-1800. These were originally published in the Early American Imprints, Series I microform set based on Charles Evans's comprehensive American Bibliography. This collection includes the more than 36,000 works found in the microform edition plus more than 1,000 additional digitized works.
This collection contains a wide variety of publication types, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, and treaties.