Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One trained in the description and cataloging of printed matter.
  • noun One who compiles a bibliography.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who writes or copies books.
  • noun One who writes about books, especially in regard to their authorship, date, typography, editions, etc.; one skilled in bibliography.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a person who compiles bibliographies.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone trained in compiling bibliographies

Etymologies

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bibliography +‎ -er

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Examples

  • So the man whom Clell Peterson called west Kentucky's demon bibliographer is now turning out even more bibliographies from Southern Illinois.

    HENSLEY CHARLES WOODBRIDGE 2010

  • He was to be Latin American bibliographer for SIU Morris Library and teach in the Foreign Language Department.

    HENSLEY CHARLES WOODBRIDGE 2010

  • Here is a public version of the one of the titles on our list - a Polish art history journal - had already been flagged by another WorldCat user (traveling under the alias 'bibliographer').

    ArchivesBlogs 2008

  • Croft, whose secretary Nodier was for a time, dignified in French books by the name of "_philologue_ Anglais"), a good deal more than a kind of bibliographer (he spent the last twenty years of his life as Librarian of the Arsenal), and an enthusiastic and stimulating, though not exactly trustworthy, critic.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • I once tried to do a bibliography of this bibliographer, but lacking his tenacity, I gave up.

    HENSLEY CHARLES WOODBRIDGE 2010

  • Park, Thomas (1758/9 – 1834): trained as an engraver, Park became a poet, book-collector, antiquary, bibliographer and editor — not least of Bloomfield's poetry.

    Index of People 2009

  • If there are any serious novels exploring the decision to drop the bomb, or the Enola Gay's mission to Hiroshima, no bibliographer has yet uncovered them.

    Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age Greg Mitchell 2011

  • Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762 – 1837): bibliographer and genealogist, MP for Maidstone 1812 – 18.

    Index of People 2009

  • A respected Jack London authority, bibliographer, collector and author.

    News and Updates 2010

  • A respected Jack London authority, bibliographer, collector and author.

    An Interview With Daniel J. Wichlan 2010

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