📚 Aesthetics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with aesthetics on their catalogue record, first published between 1479 and 1996, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject aesthetics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 46,525 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
La Poetica	Aristotle	1479	498
Der Antichrist	Friedrich Nietzsche	1895	385
Poetics	Aristotle	1536	252
Modern painters	John Ruskin	1843	134
Goethe's Werke	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1800	105
Laocoön	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	1788	85
Die Geburt der Tragödie	Friedrich Nietzsche	1872	61
Kritik der Urteilskraft	Immanuel Kant	1793	57
Herders sämmtliche Werke	Johann Gottfried Herder	1877	51
Small Is Beautiful	E. F. Schumacher	1905	50
Vers une architecture	Le Corbusier	1923	45
Modern Painters, Volume One	John Ruskin	1851	34
The principles of art	R. G. Collingwood	1656	32
Art Now	Herbert Edward Read	1933	31
Aesthetic Theory (International Library of Phenomenology and Moral Sciences)	Theodor W. Adorno	1970	31
陰翳礼讃 (In'ei raisan)	谷崎潤一郎	1977	30
The gentle art of making enemies	James McNeill Whistler	1890	28
The meaning of art	Herbert Edward Read	1931	27
Dhvanyāloka	Ānandavardhana	1900	26
The beautiful	Vernon Lee	1913	25
Concerning the spiritual in art	Wassily Kandinsky	1912	24
The sense of beauty	George Santayana	1896	20
Aesthetical and philosophical essays	Friedrich Schiller	1895	18
The Eyes of the Skin	Juhani Pallasmaa	1996	18
A history of aesthetic	Bernard Bosanquet	1892	17
Breviario di estetica	Benedetto Croce	1925	16
Intentions in architecture	Christian Norberg-Schulz	1963	16
Art and Anarchy	Edgar Wind	1963	16
La distinction	Pierre Bourdieu	1979	16
Ästhetik	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	1835	15

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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