This dataset is a collection of historical English books from before 1919. It aggregates books from the following datasets into a single dataset.
British Library Books
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Library of Congress "Selected Digitized Books"
Project Gutenberg PG19
A blend of each of the datasets was selected using the following rules.
Language = "English"
Limit natural science to most popular publications (>1 edition) from… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/NeuML/historical-english-books.
