Rarebooks.info: The Digital Library of Reference Works on Rare Books

Book collectors, rare book dealers, and special collections librarians depend heavily upon bibliographies – books on books – for the identification of specific editions, establishing provenance and value, and for the cataloguing of their collections. Many of the classical bibliographic reference works are currently out of print and almost as difficult to obtain as the rarities they themselves index. Rarebooks.info, a “digital library of reference works on rare books” as its masthead proclaims, is a subscription service that fills a need in a very specific market in the book trade by offering full‐text searchable versions of over eighty bibliographies on...