They all turn to the secretary to ask where such and such an exhibit may be found, and demand why on earth the catalogues are not ready?
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
She and her sisters were going abroad-she for the first time; and she was busy with foreign languages, and lives of the great painters, and catalogues, and guide-books, and dressing-cases.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
Here was a catalogue of one or two hundred pages, listing thousands of items, pictures, pamphlets and books, and various implements of vice, all set forth in that imitation ecstasy of department stores and seed catalogues: here was "something neat," here was a "fancy one," this one was "a peach," and that one was "a winner."
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair