Due to travel, any orders or queries for our literature department will be processed after 9 September 2010.
Updates
May 2010 - Our new catalog 277, The American West in the 19th Century, is now available for download from our catalogs page.
9 April 2010 - Our new catalog 276, The Caribbean, is now available for download from our catalogs page.
19 February 2010 - Our new Americana catalog 275, The Age of Jackson, is now available for download on our catalogs page.
20 January 2010 - We've introduced a new function to our website, a Book of the Week feature, highlighting a particularly interesting item from each of our departments. The link is found in the main top menu along the header of our main pages.
15 December 2009 - Our catalogs 273 (The American Revolution) and 274 (A Literary Miscellany) have been posted to our catalogs page for download. Catalog 273 has a special illustrated supplement, Maps of the American Revolution, which is available only on our site.
12 October 2009 - Our catalog 272 (Recent Acquisitions in Americana) has been posted to our catalogs page for download.
28 September 2009 - Books in Hard Times. A talk given by William Reese at a symposium at The Grolier Club in New York City on 22 September 2009, entitled Books in Hard Times, has been linked from our Articles page.
30 July 2009 - Two new special lists - The British in Latin America and '19 plus 160: The California Gold Rush - join Art Bulletin 16: Magnificent Voyages on our catalogs page for download. Uploads of newly catalogued material to our inventory database here proceed at a regular pace, normally amounting to several hundred new items added per week.
30 June 2009 - Though noted here somewhat tardily, our catalogs 269 and 270 (One Hundred American Historical Manuscripts) are available for download from our catalogs page.
30 April 2009 - Our catalog 268 (19th-Century Travellers) is available as a download from our Catalog page, posted contemporary with the printed version going in the post. Catalog 269 (A Literary Miscellany) is due within the next two weeks and will also be made available as a .pdf when the printed version is mailed.
19 March 2009 - Since the update below, several thousand newly catalogued items have been added to our listings, hundreds of images added, and our catalogs 266 and 267 are now available for download from our catalogs page.
17 October 2008 - Higher resolution images are now evoked by left-clicking on the images next to item descriptions or on the link directly below the image.
16 October 2008 - Downloadable pdf files of our recent catalogs 262, 263 and 264 are available on our catalogs page.
27 August 2008 - The issue affecting the display of bibliographic citations has now been resolved and they will be restored in short order to our Americana listings. Over 30,000 listings are now searchable.
7 August 2008 - Uploads continue at a summer pace, with some 27,500 items now listed in our database. A solution to the disappearance of reference citations from our descriptions when displayed is forthcoming shortly, or at least will be when a programmer retruns from vacation.
23 July 2008 - Another 1250 items have been added to our listings, with more to come.
18 July 2008 - Uploads of inventory continue, with slightly over 22,000 items listed as of this morning, along with a number of additional images, including additions to the Literature Gallery.
11 July 2008 - Much of the textual content on the site has undergone preliminary conversion to the new format, though some fine tuning remains to be accomplished. Further inventory uploads are being prepared. As of today, approximatey 15,000 items are searchable in our database, and in coming days that is projected to increase to approximately 35,000 items. Additionally, the number of images will over time increase substantially.
9 April 2010 - Our new catalog 276, The Caribbean, is now available for download from our catalogs page.
19 February 2010 - Our new Americana catalog 275, The Age of Jackson, is now available for download on our catalogs page.
20 January 2010 - We've introduced a new function to our website, a Book of the Week feature, highlighting a particularly interesting item from each of our departments. The link is found in the main top menu along the header of our main pages.
15 December 2009 - Our catalogs 273 (The American Revolution) and 274 (A Literary Miscellany) have been posted to our catalogs page for download. Catalog 273 has a special illustrated supplement, Maps of the American Revolution, which is available only on our site.
12 October 2009 - Our catalog 272 (Recent Acquisitions in Americana) has been posted to our catalogs page for download.
28 September 2009 - Books in Hard Times. A talk given by William Reese at a symposium at The Grolier Club in New York City on 22 September 2009, entitled Books in Hard Times, has been linked from our Articles page.
30 July 2009 - Two new special lists - The British in Latin America and '19 plus 160: The California Gold Rush - join Art Bulletin 16: Magnificent Voyages on our catalogs page for download. Uploads of newly catalogued material to our inventory database here proceed at a regular pace, normally amounting to several hundred new items added per week.
30 June 2009 - Though noted here somewhat tardily, our catalogs 269 and 270 (One Hundred American Historical Manuscripts) are available for download from our catalogs page.
30 April 2009 - Our catalog 268 (19th-Century Travellers) is available as a download from our Catalog page, posted contemporary with the printed version going in the post. Catalog 269 (A Literary Miscellany) is due within the next two weeks and will also be made available as a .pdf when the printed version is mailed.
19 March 2009 - Since the update below, several thousand newly catalogued items have been added to our listings, hundreds of images added, and our catalogs 266 and 267 are now available for download from our catalogs page.
17 October 2008 - Higher resolution images are now evoked by left-clicking on the images next to item descriptions or on the link directly below the image.
16 October 2008 - Downloadable pdf files of our recent catalogs 262, 263 and 264 are available on our catalogs page.
27 August 2008 - The issue affecting the display of bibliographic citations has now been resolved and they will be restored in short order to our Americana listings. Over 30,000 listings are now searchable.
7 August 2008 - Uploads continue at a summer pace, with some 27,500 items now listed in our database. A solution to the disappearance of reference citations from our descriptions when displayed is forthcoming shortly, or at least will be when a programmer retruns from vacation.
23 July 2008 - Another 1250 items have been added to our listings, with more to come.
18 July 2008 - Uploads of inventory continue, with slightly over 22,000 items listed as of this morning, along with a number of additional images, including additions to the Literature Gallery.
11 July 2008 - Much of the textual content on the site has undergone preliminary conversion to the new format, though some fine tuning remains to be accomplished. Further inventory uploads are being prepared. As of today, approximatey 15,000 items are searchable in our database, and in coming days that is projected to increase to approximately 35,000 items. Additionally, the number of images will over time increase substantially.
10 July 2008 - The third iteration of the William Reese Company web site is live, straddling two domains. In coming days, the remaining textual content will be assimilated into the new format (most specifically our index of papers and articles), and a regular daily stream of uploads of inventory will be taking place. In the interim, welcome, and we ask your patience with our growing pains.