Bibliographical

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 cl-ssification of books and other works.
historical examples

the confession of a fool august strindberg
college teaching paul klapper
the life of florence nightingale vol. 1 of 2 edward tyas cook
the book-hunter at home p. b. m. allan
the book-hunter at home p. b. m. allan
the book-hunter john hill burton
a history of english literature george saintsbury
the journal of negro history, volume 6, 1921 various
papers and proceedings of the twenty-third general meeting of the american library -ssociation various
a history of american christianity leonard woolsey bacon

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, cl-ssification, etc, of literary material
a work on this subject

adj.
n.