If you haven't seen it yet, our good friends over at Heraldry of the World (You do know about the Heraldry of the World ("HotW") website, don't you? And visit it regularly? No? Then stop reading this right now -- it'll still be here when you get back -- and go visit https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/wiki/Heraldry_of_the_world and see what's available for you there! No, really, go!) have recently created a new resource for people like you and me.
You know, people who read about, study, and involve themselves in heraldry in its many forms. Stuff like that.
Well, HotW has created a new site entitled "Bibliography of heraldry: a free overview of international heraldic literature". It's a list, broken down by topic, of books, periodicals, and even newspaper articles on some aspect or another of heraldry.
It is not links to those items, many of which are not available on the world wide web, but clicking on an item will bring up all of the bibliographic information that will tell you what, by whom, when, in what publication, and so on, which will let you track it down precisely if you are interested in reading (or owning) it.
There are two relevant URLs to the Bibliography of heraldry:
The first contains information about what is contained in and how to use the Bibliography. It also informs you that it is a "never ending project" which will be added to, with the aim of helping heraldists find "heraldic publications, old and modern, common or obscure." This page can be found on the HotW website at: https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/bibliography/
The second is to the Bibliography itself, to let you start searching. You can get to it from a link near the top of the HotW page above, or access it directly here: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5854305/bibliography_of_heraldry/library
As one of my alter egos* says, "Check it out!"
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