Antedating of "Bibliography"

[Fred Shapiro]

bibliography (OED, modern sense, 1814)

1756 Abel Boyer _Dictionnaire royal, francois-anglois et anglois-francois_
71 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  BIBLIOGRAPHIE ...
_Bibliography_, the knowledge of the ancient way of writings, and
_manuscripts_.

Fred Shapiro


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