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British Library

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Tracking Books Throughout History

This report analyses 3,001,686 distinct books by year of edition, from 1563 to today

3,001,686

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Timeline

All 3,001,686 books by edition date since from 1783

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Oldest books

Book	Author	Year
Eclogues, epitaphs and sonnets	Barnabe Googe	1563
Sefer Sheʾerit Yosef : ʿal melekhet ha-ʿibur be-shir shaḳul ʿim perush be-tosefet beʾur	Joseph ben Shem-Tob ben Jeshuah Chay	1568
The life and death of Mr. Edmund Geninges, 1614, [by] John Gennings; [and, A censure about the rule of beleefe practised by the protestants, 1634, by Valeriano Magni; translated from the Latin; and, The defence of the honor of God, 1621, by Anthony Clarke]	John Gennings	1614
Corona di spine di Maria sempre vergine stampata ad istanza del rev. padre Gio: Pietro Inuiti curato di S. Pietro all'Horto per essercitare i suoi penitenti alla divotione, & alli dolori dell'istessa Madre di Dio	Giovanni Pietro Inviti	1700
Love's chronicle: or, the changing heart	Abraham Cowley	1730
Redenvoeringen over verscheide stoffen ... : Uit het hoogduitsch vertaalt	Abraham a Sancta Clara	1742
The microscope made easy: : or I, the nature, uses and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes described, calculated and explained ... II, an account of what surprizing discoveries have already been made by the microscope ...;	Henry Baker	1744
Eight Views of Windsor Great Park [with dedication "To His Royal Highness the Duke these Eight Views of Windsor Great Park are humbly Inscribed by His Royal Highness' most Devoted & Obedient Servant Thos Sandby"]	Thomas Sandby	1754
A sermon preached in the Cathedral church of St. Patrick, Dublin at an ordination held by His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, on Sunday 30th day of May, 1779 ...,	John Baird	1779
Or li-netivah : ṿe-hu haḳdamah le-ḥibur Netivot ha-shalom	Moses Mendelssohn	1783

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