Early Printed Books // Vault

The Early Printed Books Collection is comprised of materials printed in the West from the 15th to the 18th centuries, highlighting works printed during the hand-press period held at UVic Libraries and partner institutions. The collection also includes incunabula (books printed with moveable type before 1501).

Resource type

Collection

Subject

Literature

Genre

books

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Collection Details

: Items 20
: Last Updated 2025-07-23

Works (20)

List of items in this collection
Title	Date Created	Date Added
Ad physiologum	approximately 1588	2022-04-26
Shakespeare's Second folio, 1632	1632	2022-04-12
The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publicke and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miles compasse	1633	2022-02-02
Paradise lost : a poem in ten books	1669	2025-07-23
Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, 1685 [Copy 01]	1685	2022-04-12
Shakespeare's Fourth folio, 1685 [Copy 02]	1685	2022-04-12
Georgius Secundus, Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae, Franciae et Hiberniae Rex	approximately 1730	2020-09-10
Life and Genuine Character of the Rev. Dr. S---t written by himself	1733	2021-10-15
The Beasts Confession to the Priest : on observing how most men mistake their own talents	1738	2021-10-15
An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolæ vaccinæ, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox	1800	2024-09-05