"If I were the owner of the copy of Keats's Poems which Shelley had in his pocket when he was drowned, and which Trelawney threw upon the funeral pyre, I confess I should never read it...though I might keep it in a little shrine and burn incense to it." "I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library..." -- Borges     "Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." -- Samuel Johnson. There are a number of books about antiquarian books that provide an interesting introduction to the history and terminology of books and rare book collecting. The following provides a list of these resources, as well as a number of the reference works often cited in our catalogue descriptions.   Additional antiquarian book related sites on the internet.