CATALOGUE, a list or enumeration of the names of men or things, disposed according to a certain order.
Catalogues of books are arranged either according to the order of the times when the books were printed, their form and size, in the alphabetical order of the authors' names, or according to the order of the subjects. Of this last kind is the Catalogue Raisonné (classed catalogue), in which the books are arranged under the heads of their several subjects, with a brief analysis of the contents of each. See BIBLIOGRAPHY.