Definition of "metalexicography"

Metalexicography can be divided into five fields of interest; the first is lexicographic theory […]

1986, Robert Ilson, Lexicography: An Emerging International Profession, page 101

This is a bibliography of works that deal with the theory, methods, and procedures of lexicography (in short, with what is called in French and German metalexicography)

1988, Ladislav Zgusta et al., Lexicography Today: An Annotated Bibliography of the Theory of Lexicography‎, page 7