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
Within the last ten years the progress of discovery in every department of knowledge has made a new work of reference an imperative want.
From The Electoral Votes of 1876 Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count by Field, David Dudley
His marvellous catalogue must have proved a revelation at the time, and to-day it is a work of reference at once instructive and agreeable.
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
It is absolutely indispensable, as a work of reference, for any serious study of Greek history.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
