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Abstract:(Paper I) We provide details of a multicolor ( u, b_j_, v, or, r, i), wide-field, faint magnitude survey for high-redshift (z >= 2.2 ) quasars. The survey extends over the magnitude range 16<=m_or_<=20 and covers a total area of 58.6 square degrees. Sources of incompleteness in the photometric catalog are quantified, giving the survey an effective area of 45.7 square degrees. Particular attention is paid to the details of the plate-matching and image-classification procedures used in the generation of the photometric catalog from which quasars are selected, in order that
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