Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One trained in the description and cataloging of printed matter.
- noun One who compiles a bibliography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who writes or copies books.
- noun One who writes about books, especially in regard to their authorship, date, typography, editions, etc.; one skilled in bibliography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who compiles
bibliographies .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone trained in compiling bibliographies
Etymologies
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Examples
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So the man whom Clell Peterson called west Kentucky's demon bibliographer is now turning out even more bibliographies from Southern Illinois.
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He was to be Latin American bibliographer for SIU Morris Library and teach in the Foreign Language Department.
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Here is a public version of the one of the titles on our list - a Polish art history journal - had already been flagged by another WorldCat user (traveling under the alias 'bibliographer').
ArchivesBlogs 2008
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Croft, whose secretary Nodier was for a time, dignified in French books by the name of "_philologue_ Anglais"), a good deal more than a kind of bibliographer (he spent the last twenty years of his life as Librarian of the Arsenal), and an enthusiastic and stimulating, though not exactly trustworthy, critic.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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I once tried to do a bibliography of this bibliographer, but lacking his tenacity, I gave up.
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Park, Thomas (1758/9 – 1834): trained as an engraver, Park became a poet, book-collector, antiquary, bibliographer and editor — not least of Bloomfield's poetry.
Index of People 2009
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If there are any serious novels exploring the decision to drop the bomb, or the Enola Gay's mission to Hiroshima, no bibliographer has yet uncovered them.
Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age Greg Mitchell 2011
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Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762 – 1837): bibliographer and genealogist, MP for Maidstone 1812 – 18.
Index of People 2009
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A respected Jack London authority, bibliographer, collector and author.
News and Updates 2010
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A respected Jack London authority, bibliographer, collector and author.
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