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This single-volume reference offers a practical, evaluative guide to the main general dictionaries of the world's languages. It provides selective, critical annotations to help users choose the most appropriate dictionary for their purpose.

"This bibliographical guide to the sources of miniature books makes no pretension at being complete or even exhaustive. While the titles herein mentioned are mostly restricted to my own collection, they are representative of the field. The concentration is on printed sources (which include books, pamphlets, brochures and offprints), periodical essays, miniature books, catalogues, and related materials"--Foreword, page vii.

The tracer's goals are to identify the source of a quotation, to find or to produce detailed citation based on a reliable edition of the work, to find an authoritative text of the passage being traced, and to do all this in the shortest time possible and with the least possible amount of effort.

Online ed. provides access to the entire 45,000-plus articles of Grove's Dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.

Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, government and politics, and science and medicine from the colonial era onward.

Provides a complete and unabridged biblical text, with condensed introductions, notes, and simple format.

Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge -- reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost...

The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600 is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry up to the year 1600.