passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.
     folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo[obs3], sextodecimo[obs3],
octodecimo[obs3].
     encyclopedia; encompilation[obs3].
     [collection of books] library, bibliotheca[obs3].
     press &c. (publication) 531.
     [complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive
treatise (dissertation) 595.
     [person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur[Fr], essayist,
journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker[obs3], diaskeaust[obs3], ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor[obs3]; playwright &c. 599; poet &c. 597.
     bookseller, publisher; bibliopole[obs3], bibliopolist[obs3];
librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller’s shop.
     knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning &c. (knowledge) 490. 
     Phr. “among the giant fossils of my past” [E.  B. Browning]; craignez
tout d’un auteur en courroux[Fr]; “for authors nobler palms remain” [Pope]; “I lived to write and wrote to live” [Rogers]; “look in thy heart and write” [Sidney]; “there is no Past so long as Books shall live” [Bulwer Lytton]; “the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers” [Disraeli]; “volumes that I prize above my dukedom” [Tempest].

     #594.  Description. —­ N. description, account, statement, report;
expose &c. (disclosure) 529 specification, particulars; state of facts, summary of facts; brief &c. (abstract) 596; return &c. (record) 551; catalogue raisonne &c. (list) 86[Fr]; guidebook &c. (information) 527.
     delineation &c (representation) 554; sketch; monograph; minute
account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.
     historiography[obs3], chronography[obs3]; historic Muse, Clio;
history; biography, autobiography; necrology, obituary.
     narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals &c. (chronicle) 551;
saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette[obs3]; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana[obs3], trait.
     work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery
tale; fable, parable, apologue[obs3]; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker
     relator &c. v.; raconteur, historian &c. (recorder) 553; biographer,
fabulist[obs3], novelist. 
     V. describe; set forth &c. (state) 535; draw a picture, picture;
portray &c. (represent) 554; characterize, particularize; narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one’s battles over again.
     unfold a tale &c. (disclose) 529; tell; give an account of, render an
account of; report, make a report, draw up a statement.
     detail; enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to
particulars, descend to details; itemize. 
     Adj. descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn;
historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic[obs3], storied; described &c. v. 
     Phr. furor scribendi[Lat].