This dataset contains metadata for resources belonging to the British Library’s digitised printed books (18th-19th century) collection (bl.uk/collection-guides/digitised-printed-books). This metadata has been extracted from British Library catalogue records. The metadata held within our main catalogue is updated regularly. This metadata dataset should be considered a snapshot of this metadata. For a definitive metadata record for an item, you should consult the British Library catalogue at explore.bl.uk. A subset of this dataset includes additional annotations produced out by British Library cataloguers. These annotations include corrections to the existing catalogue data. Annotations also record the genre (“Fiction” or “non-Fiction”) of a resource and FAST genre and subject terms (oclc.org/research/areas/data-science/fast.html). For a complete overview of the columns included in the dataset, please refer to the readme file.
