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bibliographical

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  • adjective bibliographic

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  • adjective relating to or dealing with bibliography

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Examples

  • I don't know why my parents chose two different transliterations for "Yong", but if they had not, Richard and I would be completely indistinguishable ( "Tsien RY") in bibliographical databases.

    Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography 2009

  • With respect to some of the college libraries at Oxford, Cambridge, and even Dublin, it is easier to arrive at the facts, so far as they go, or, in other words, many of the rare and important acquisitions of those institutions came to them at a period anterior to what may be termed the bibliographical era, and were often contemporary gifts from the authors of the volumes or from early owners of them.

    The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • I hope that this kind of bibliographical, aesthetic, and technical information, as well the ability to manipulate images on one's home computer to detect what has heretofore required examination of the originals, stimulates new ways to teach, research, and think about art in general and Blake in particular.

    Introduction 2003

  • When the timecamein 1979that I thoughtof writinga novel about the critical developments in Poland, it was obvious tome that since I did not speak Polish or read it, I would need some kind of bibliographical assistance, and Piszek and Moszuk came up with the idea of asking some dozen top intellects in Poland to draft summaries of recent scholarship in fifteen vital fields.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • In the 1960s several 'bibliographical' presses were established by those wishing, among other things, to teach the methods of textual transmission in the medium of print as practised in the handpress era.

    Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

  • The Indian Government has of late years ordered a kind of bibliographical survey of India to be made, and has sent some learned

    India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861

  • Includes bibliographical references p. and index.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • This volume included valuable bibliographical essays by B.C. Bloomfield and by Bruce Graver, as well as discussions that set

    Introduction: Tim Fulford 2009

  • The book concludes with a masterly bibliographical essay that is an invaluable guide for readers who want to expand their study of Mormonism.

    Five Best: Samuel Morris Brown Samuel Morris Brown 2012

  • In 1991 he compiled A Dictionary of Writers and their Works for OUP and in 2002 The Oxford Chronology of English Literature, a major scholarly resource containing bibliographical information on 30,000 titles from 4,000 authors, 1474–2000.

    Michael Cox biography 2009

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