ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

[subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause;
endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.
folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo † , sextodecimo † , octodecimo † .
encyclopedia; encompilation † .
[collection of books] library, bibliotheca † .
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 † , diaskeaust † , ghost,
hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor † ; playwright
&c 599; poet &c 597.
bookseller, publisher; bibliopole † , bibliopolist † ; 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 † , chronography † ; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography,
autobiography; necrology, obituary.
narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals &c (chronicle) 551; saga; tradition,
legend, story, tale, historiette † ; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes,
experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana † , trait.
work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable,
apologue † ; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator &c v.; raconteur,
historian &c (recorder) 553; biographer, fabulist † , 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.