work of reference
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The accessibility and the miraculous compactness of this set are bound to be its huge selling point; as a handy work of reference, certainly, it's hard to fault.
From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013
But that is precisely the accolade bestowed upon it by the Miele Guide � a recently launched work of reference that aspires to be to Asia what the Michelin is to Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
This standard work of reference has been revised throughout, and enlarged by the addition of an extra chapter on Peerage Dignities.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
No work of reference has been more useful and successful, or more frequently copied, imitated and translated, than that known as the Conversations Lexikon of Brockhaus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
It is the most complete publication of its kind, and makes an admirable introduction to the study of birds and the literature of Ornithology and at the same time is an authoritative work of reference.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
