Bibliographies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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     2. a list of books or other printed works having some common
        theme, such as topic, period, author, or publisher.
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     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 a list of the published (and sometimes unpublished)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.
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     4. the branch of library science dealing with the history and
        classification of books and other published materials.
        [PJC] Bibliolater