Digital Image Collections.
You can now search for digital images of items from Folger Shakespeare Library collections via download and installation of Luna Insight software, or via web browser access to Insight.
Details.

Attributed to George Gower, ca. 1540-1596.
The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, 1579. (Oil on panel, 104.4 x 76.2 cm).
Reproduction of oil painting.
Catalog entry.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.
Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies: published according to the true originall copies. (London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623).
The First Folio, Folger copy no. 5: Digital edition by Octavo, in PDF format.
[Please note: although these files may be slow to load, the electronic edition should be accessible in full through this link.]
Catalog entry.

Edmund Spenser, 1552?-1599.
The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning tvvelue Æglogues proportionable to the twelue monethes. (At London : Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, 1579).
Reproductions of title page, colophon, and woodblock illustrations of the twelve months.
Catalog entry.

Thomas Trevelyon, b. ca. 1548.
Commonplace book, 1608. (English manuscript). MS V.b.232.
Reproductions of fifteen manuscript pages.
Catalog entry.

Folger Library Microfilms Database.
This database lists all microfilms that have been made of Folger rare books, art, and manuscripts, including those items that are unique or restricted. Click past any "certificate errors," should you see any (typically in Internet Explorer). To order personal copies of microfilm, use these online forms.

Hand-List of Microfilm and Selected Microfiche Sets.
Updated in June 2008, this PDF lists major microfilm and microfiche sets owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Folger Library online finding aids.
Guides to Folger manuscripts and other collections, many previously available only in typescript, mounted online using Encoded Archival Description (EAD).

Finding aid for Garrick playbills.
This "Guide to the Playbills in the Folger Shakespeare Library Relating to the Theatrical Career of David Garrick, 1741-1776" offers pervasive access to playbills in the Folger Shakespeare Library relating to the professional career of David Garrick, as actor, manager, dramatist, and man of the theatre.

Selected Maps:

• Folger Shakespeare Library's Collection of Warwickshire County Maps
• List of British County Atlases at the Folger Shakespeare Library
• London Maps in the Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library

American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL).

American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project.

American National Biography.

Archive Grid.

British History Online.
Includes Calendars of State Papers, Domestic and the Calendars of State Papers for Scotland and Ireland, plus the Calendar of Close Rolls

Burke's Peerage and Gentry.
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Dictionary of National Biography Online.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO).

Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance.

John Milton: A Bibliography (MRTS Online Series).

Literary Manuscripts Online: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

MLA International Bibliography.

The Newdigate newsletters, Numbers 1 through 2100 (13 January 1673/4 through 11 June 1692).

Oxford English Dictionary Online.

Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700.

Shakespeare Quarterly (JSTOR).
Back issues from 1950 through five years before the current issue.

Shakespeare Quarterly (Project Muse).
Back issues for the most recent four years.

Virginia Company Archives.

Women Writers Online.

World Shakespeare Bibliography.

Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service.

DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.

English Short Title Catalogue (British Library).

Hamlet on the Ramparts.

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.

Institute of Historical Research.

Leeds Verse Database (BCMSV).

Middle English Dictionary (University of Michigan).

The National Archives.

PLRE.Folger: Private Libraries in Renaissance England.

The Royal Historical Society Bibliography.

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive.

The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive.

The Wenceslaus Hollar digital collection.

European Library (Portal to the national libraries of Europe).

Garrick Club (London, England): Art & Library Collections).

Independent Research Libraries Association.

International Directory of Art Libraries.

Libraries on the Web.

The Library of Congress.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

UK Higher Education and Research Libraries.

Washington Research Library Consortium.