Bibliographic


a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
a list of source materials that are used or consulted in the preparation of a work or that are referred to in the text.
a branch of library science dealing with the history, physical description, comparison, and classification of books and other works.
Historical Examples

Motion Pictures 1960-1969 Copyright Office. Library of Congress.
A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies Archer Taylor
Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 Various
A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies Archer Taylor
Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology Audrey Davis
Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Ottawa, Canada June 26-July 2, 1912 Various
Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico John Wesley Powell
The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. Various
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams
Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Meeting of the American Library Association Various

noun (pl) -phies
a list of books or other material on a subject
a list of sources used in the preparation of a book, thesis, etc
a list of the works of a particular author or publisher

the study of the history, classification, etc, of literary material
a work on this subject

n.

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