Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw‐Shoemaker, 1801‐1819

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw‐Shoemaker, 1801‐1819, is another valuable instalment in the Archive of Americana series from Readex, a division of NewsBank. Like the first series of Early American Imprints (Evans), previously reviewed in these columns (RR 2005/68), Shaw‐Shoemaker represents a major digitization effort to make widely available 36,000 books, broadsides, papers, government documents, and other printed texts, which were identified in the 22 two volumes of the original printed set (Shaw and Shoemaker, 1958‐1966). Shaw‐Shoemaker covers an important gap in American bibliographic studies between the Evans checklist, which ends in 1800, and Roorbach's checklist, which...