a bookcase triggered by a candle. H. C. Bunner wrote a comic poem "Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe" "I have a bookcase which is what / Many much better men have not / There are no books inside, for books / I am afraid might spoil its looks, etc." In this passage from Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, the author refers to a bookcase; "Thomas she had a bookcase in her sitting room with glass doors." Beatrix Potter referred to a bookcase in her children's tales The Original Peter Rabbit Books in this passage; "The bookcase and the bird-cage refused to go into the mouse-hole." Gallery See also Angus Snead Macdonald, businessman, developed improved types of cast iron library shelving Chained library Foredge shelving Fremont Rider Globe Wernicke Great Bookcase Leistler Bookcase Sliding bookcase Spine shelving Vitalsource Bookshelf, an eTextbook platform References Further reading Ellsworth, Ralph E. (1973) Academic library buildings: a guide to architectural issues and solutions 530 pp. Boulder: Associated University Press Petroski, Henry (1999) The Book on the Bookshelf 290pp. New York City: Knopf. Book terminology Ancient Roman technology Cabinets (furniture) Chinese inventions