Antedating of "Bibliography"

[Fred Shapiro]

bibliography (OED, 2., 1814)

1756 Abel Boyer _Dictionnaire royal, francois-anglois et
anglois-francois, tire des meilleurs auteurs qui ont ecrit dans ces deux
langues. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigee, & augmentee
considerablement_ 71 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online_ 71
BIBLIOGRAPHIE ... _Bibliography_, the knowledge of the ancient way of
writings, and _manuscripts_.

Fred Shapiro


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