n.a list of books or other materials, that details each entry’s formal elements, such as creator, title, date, and extent, and sometimes includes annotations that describe the content or place the work in contextTully 2015, 277A later chapter expands this discussion of the book as physical artifact into a discussion of the various disciplines within bibliography. It is obvious that the author feels that the knowledge and skills needed to understand the subtleties of enumerative, historical, descriptive, and textual bibliography are being lost in the profession today.