bibliograph

present singular third person bibliographs · participle present bibliographing · participle past bibliographed · past bibliographed

1. raretransitiveTo create a bibliography about (some topic).

   Even Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Republic are engaged in bibliographing their own geographies, while the subject is being taken up in Egypt, in the United States, in Paraguay, in Australia, and in Canada.

   1896 March, “Some New Books”, in Natural Science: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, volume VIII, number 49, London: Rait, Henderson, & Co., Limited, page 206

plural bibliographs

1. rareA bibliographer.

   It is for persevering bibliographs to accomplish a task that is more profound and further reaching than the research of the book cataloguer.

   1957, Barton Currie, “A Fisher of Books and Gumuchian”, in William Targ, editor, Bibliophile in the Nursery: A Bookman's Treasury of Collector's Lore on Old and Rare Children's Books, Cleveland, O.H.; New York, N.Y.: The World Publishing Company, page 233

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   Further difficulties were placed in his way during the revision of the proofs, and the interference of the catalogue committee hampered his work. Although the opinion of bibliographs was in favour of Panizzi, the committee resolved that he be no longer employed.

   1937, Margaret C[ampbell] W[alker] Wicks, The Italian Exiles in London: 1816–1848, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., published 1968, page 134