📚 Bibliography

Lists of books taken as a discipline: its national surveys and its detective scholarship.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bibliography in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Dictionary of National Biography	George Murray Smith	1885	122
	Samlede Vaerker	Henrik Ibsen	1877	82
	Poems	William Cullen Bryant	1800	81
	A Shropshire lad	A. E. Housman	1896	74
	Letters from missions (North America).	Jesuits.	1852	73
	Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine	William Carew Hazlitt	1886	73
	The works of Lord Byron	Lord Byron	1800	63
	A dictionary of books relating to America	Joseph Sabin	1868	60
	The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey	Thomas De Quincey	1889	49
	Novelle per un anno	Luigi Pirandello	1900	48
	A life of William Shakespeare	Sir Sidney Lee	1898	45
	International catalogue of scientific literature, 1901-1914	Royal Society of London	1901	45
	ABC for book-collectors	John Carter	1951	42
	International Bibliography of the Social Sciences	International C	1969	42
	New Publications for Architecture Libraries	Mary Vance	1982	40
	Canada and its provinces	Shortt, Adam	1914	38
	The Oxford companion to music	Scholes, Percy Alfred	1938	38
	Appuleii opera omnia	Lucius Apuleius	1560	36
	Ante-Nicene Christian library, Vol. II	Roberts, Alexander	1867	31
	The Third World	E. Willard Miller	1981	29
	How to write a play	Lajos Egri	1942	28
	The index of psychoanalytic writings	Alexander Grinstein	1956	28
	Dictionary of philosophy and psychology, including many of the principal conceptions of ethics, logic, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, mental pathology, anthropology, biology,	James Mark Baldwin	1901	27
	Works of John Taylor, the water-poet	John Taylor "The Water-Poet"	1630	25
	History and general description of New France	Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix	1866	25
	Œuvres de Molière	Molière	1734	22
	A history of psychology	Wayne Viney	1979	20
	Apollo	Salomon Reinach	1904	19
	Documentary film	Paul Rotha	1936	18
	A treatise on probability	John Maynard Keynes	1921	16

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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