This collection contains over 2 million printed pages of English-language works, many of them comprising multiple volumes. It constitutes one of the most important collections of British Romantic-era writing in existence anywhere - indicated, for instance, by the considerable number of exceedingly rare publications—and even numerous previously unknown works—by British writers (and women writers in particular, whose works comprise over 1,000 of the titles) who were active during the Romantic period. It also includes 3,658 works in French (including more than 500 by women) and 2,653 works in German, all of them dating primarily from the period 1790–1840.