bibliography
(bɪblɪˈɒgrəfɪ)
[a. Gr. βιβλιογραϕία book-writing: cf. F. bibliographie.]
† 1. The writing of books. Obs.
| 1678 in Phillips (App.) |
2. The systematic description and history of books, their authorship, printing, publication, editions, etc.
| 1814 Dibdin Bibl. Spencer. I. Pref. 5 The Study of Bibliography in this country is perhaps in its infancy. 1854 Allibone Dict. Eng. Lit. Pref. 5 Some other manuals of a similar character are very defective in bibliography. 1870 Emerson Soc. & Solit. viii. 168 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go. |
3. A book containing such details.
| 1838 Hallam Hist. Lit. I. i. iii. 184 note, No such book appears in any of the bibliographies. |
4. A list of the books of a particular author, printer, or country, or of those dealing with any particular theme; the literature of a subject.
| 1814 T. H. Horne Introd. Study Bibliography I. ii. iii. §4. 365 Professional, or..special bibliography, has reference only to one class of books, and comprehends every work published on the subject of which it treats... Special bibliographies may be disposed either alphabetically, or systematically. 1869 W. Rowlands (title) Cambrian Bibliography. 1879 R. H. Shepherd (title) The Bibliography of Ruskin. 1882 Nature XXVI. 26 The literature or bibliography of the species of the Orthocerata. 1930 K. Malone in English Jrnl. XIX. 646 The term bibliography is also used, unhappily, I think, to mean ‘list of writings germane to a given topic’. |