
A publicly accessible online database hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC) that makes available the more than 13,000 records in the database of the Private Libraries of Renaissance England Project, the major resource for records of private ownership of books in England before 1650. Fully searchable in a wide variety of categories, including major subjects, the PLRE database offers a different and complementary presentation of the material available in the printed volumes of the PLRE project.