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Bibliographies

Bibliography \Bib`li*og"ra*phy\ (b[i^]b`l[i^]*[o^]g"r[.a]*f[y^]) n.; pl. Bibliographies. [Gr. bibliografi`a: cf. F. bibliographie.]

  1. a history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

  2. a list of books or other printed works having some common theme, such as topic, period, author, or publisher.

  3. a list of the published (and sometimes unpublished) sources of information referred to in a scholarly discourse or other text, or used as reference materials for its preparation.

  4. the branch of library science dealing with the history and classification of books and other published materials.

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bibliographies

n. (plural of bibliography English)

Usage examples of "bibliographies".

In the small selection given below, one bibliographical work is included, while several of the titles contain fairly detailed bibliographies.

According to the bibliographies, the Fargas and Ungern copies are also au­thentic.

I was in ecstasy if I discovered an edition with margins two millimeters wider than those described in the ca­nonical bibliographies.

Apart from its obligatory mention in the canonical bibliographies, even the most precise references had included only summary descriptions of the nine engravings, without minor details.

In the brief interval between last night and this morning, a minute period of time compared to their centuries-old contents, the antiquarian bibliographies had gone out of date.

There are libraries to visit, bibliographies to compile, catalogs to request.

With access to the university library's checkout records, she had compared a random dozen doctoral candidates' dissertations in progress with the sources cited in their bibliographies and footnotes.

Pertinent chapters and useful bibliographies will also be found in the following volumes of the "American Nation": William A.

Some software applications will summarize content, others will index and automatically reference and hyperlink texts (virtual bibliographies).

With this caution in mind, you can get bibliographies for specific problems from Dr.

Looking through my collection, I find that it is practically all trash, interesting only to bibliographies.