Historical texts Digitised versions of more than 65,000 first editions from the 19th century, covering philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The collection extends to over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible content, and includes the original typeface and illustrations for each book. JISC Historic Books enables you to cross-search over 300,000 historical books published in English or in England before 1800 and 65,000 19th century books from the following historically significant collections: Early English Books Online (EEBO); Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO); 19th Century books from the British Library collection (never available before online)