noun (plural -phies)
Etymology: probably from New Latin bibliographia, from Greek, the copying of books, from bibli- + -graphia -graphy
Date: 1802
the history, identification, or description of writings or publications,
2. a list often with descriptive or critical notes of writings relating to a particular subject, period, or author, a list of works written by an author or printed by a publishing house, the works or a list of the works referred to in a text or consulted by the author in its production, bibliographic also bibliographical adjective bibliographically adverb