DescriptionThe English Short Title Catalog provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language, as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world. ESTC serves as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of surviving copies. All recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700 are now represented in the file. Produced by the ESTC editorial offices at the University of California, Riverside and the British Library, in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society and more than 1,600 libraries worldwide, the file is updated and expanded daily.