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The introduction to St. Jerome's _De viris illustribus_ written in A.D. 392 may contain the first bibliography of bibliographies. Here we find a list of nine men who had written bibliographies of various kinds. St. Jerome writes as follows:
The introduction to St. Jerome's _De viris illustribus_ written in A.D. 392 may contain the first bibliography of bibliographies. Here we find a list of nine men who had written...
2. Chapter IIIn the seventeenth century several bibliographies of bibliographies were undertaken as independent enterprises. One of them was actually completed and published and after severa...
3. Chapter IIIThe listing of books that contain the word _Bibliotheca_ in their titles is a special bibliographical development in the seventeenth century and continues into the eighteenth. I...
4. Chapter IVComprehensive authoritative bibliographies of the most popular fields of scholarship are characteristic products of the eighteenth century.[126] They began to appear in the last...
5. Chapter VIn the historical development of bibliographies of bibliographies two aspects become especially prominent after 1900. Periodical surveys become a characteristic form of publicat...
6. volume 3 has not yet been issued. Both the second and the promisedthird volume are subject bibliographies and therefore need no mention here. The first volume contains some information about books that are not bibliographies, although they are...
7. Chapter VIFour centuries have elapsed since Conrad Gesner published the first modern bibliography of bibliographies in the _Pandectae_ of 1548. Although it was only a section in a general...