bibliograph

English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from bibliography. Equivalent to biblio- +‎ -graph.

Verb

bibliograph (third-person singular simple present bibliographs, present participle bibliographing, simple past and past participle bibliographed)

1. (transitive, rare) To create a bibliography about (some topic).
   • 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:

     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.

Usage notes

• The term is very uncommon in modern English and may be perceived as incorrect.

Derived terms

• bibliographing (noun)

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bibliographe. Equivalent to biblio- +‎ -graph.

Noun

bibliograph (plural bibliographs)

1. (rare) A bibliographer.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

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

Usage notes

• "Bibliograph" is at least 200 times rarer than bibliographer.