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
The printed account of them, viewed as a work of reference, must be read cum grano salis—cum multis granis.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew
Bracton made his famous digest of the English common law for the use of judges and lawyers and it became a standard work of reference.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Even to this day it is a valuable work of reference, containing as it does a vast amount of practical information and forming an invaluable source of agricultural history.
From History of Farming in Ontario by James, C. C. (Charles Canniff)
