Legal bibliography is the

bibliography Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliograph ...

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

. The term has been applied to "the kinds and functions of legal materials" and to "lists of

law book A law book is a book about law. It is possible to make a distinction between "law books" on the one hand, and "books about law" on the other. This distinction is "useful". A law book is "a work of legal doctrine". It consists of "law talk", that i ...

s and related materials". Percy Winfield said that a "perfect legal bibliography" would be "a critical and historical account of every known

source Source may refer to: Research * Historical document * Historical source * Source (intelligence) or sub source, typically a confidential provider of non open-source intelligence * Source (journalism), a person, publication, publishing institute ...

of the law of the state with which it assumes to deal".

History

In 1835, David Hoffman said that the legal bibliography of

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

and

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

, especially in the separate treatises on various branches of the law, was, by that date, "extensive, exact and learned". He also said that in

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

"in jurisprudence (beyond a naked catalogue) we have scarce another name than Bridgman".

Marvin's Legal Bibliography ''Legal Bibliography'' is a book by John Gage Marvin, and was hist best-known work. It is a bibliography of law. It was the first publication of its kind to originate from the United States of America. Marvin was then a librarian at Harvard Unive ...

was the first publication of its kind to originate from the United States of America. In 1988, Bookman's Yearbook said that legal bibliography was in a "sorry state".Bookman's Yearbook. Bookman's Weekly. 1988. Page 10.

References

*Friend, William Lawrence. Anglo-American Legal Bibliographies: An Annotated Guide. United States Government Printing Office. Washington DC. 1944. * George Watson and I. Willison. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press. Column
2277
to 2280.

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Bibliography Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliograph ...