Bibliography or the Science of Books, a study in the theoretical principles of bibliography and its applications - General Theory By: Shaaban Abdel Aziz Khalifa The Egyptian Lebanese House Second Edition 1418 Book age: 37 years / New 524 pages A book considered one of the primary sources in the field of bibliography. It deals with the origin of the term bibliography and its development among the Romans, Greeks, Europeans, Egyptians, and Arabs. Then it discusses the classification of bibliography in the branches of science throughout different ages. The book presents what the term bibliography encompasses in terms of meanings and concepts. The fourth chapter, the largest and most important chapter of the book, deals with the efforts of bibliographic control of information sources throughout history in ancient times, the Islamic Middle Ages, and modern Arab eras. The following chapter is about bibliographic control in the West. The book concludes with the steps for preparing bibliographic projects using the bibliographic method, which is known.