Documents

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Attribution scholars rely on a variety of historical documents for information about authorship. Such sources of so-called external evidence of authorship include: entries in the Stationers' Register; references in correspondence, diaries, and biographies; ledgers and receipts; legal records; playlists compiled by stationers; and so on.

This page hosts or links to transcriptions and/or digital images of such documents.

  • Winstanley, William, The lives of the most famous English Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus (London, 1687), Wing W3065.
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Transcription: [EEBO-TCP Phase I]

  • Phillips, Edward, Theatrum Poetarum (London, 1675), Wing P2075.


Page images: [Internet Archive]
Transcription: [EEBO-TCP Phase I]