Antedating of "Bibliography"

[Shapiro, Fred]

bibliography (OED, 3., 1838)

1691 _Athenian Gazette_ 27 Sept. (Burney Collection Newspapers)    Cornelius Beughem, his Essay towards a Literary History, to be shewed at several views, the first whereof comes abroad now, which is the Critico-curious Bibliography of the Learned ... Amst. by Jansson Wasberg. 1689. ... The Principal Works whence the Author has taken this Bibliography ... We have already seen the same Author's _Juridical and Political Bibliography_.

Fred Shapiro

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