📚 Carpentry

Timber worked to structure: joint traditions, the framer’s arithmetic, and the manuals that taught both.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject carpentry 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
	The carpenter's new guide	Peter Nicholson	1793	16
	A Reverence for Wood	Eric Sloane	1955	14
	Modern carpentry	Willis H. Wagner	1969	13
	A Place of My Own	Michael Pollan	1997	13
	Carpentry and Joinery	R. Bayliss	1966	12
	Carpentry and building construction	John Louis Feirer	1976	12
	Site carpentry	C. K. Austin	1979	11
	The American builder's general price book and estimator ..	James Gallier	1833	10
	Fundamentals of carpentry	Walter Edward Durbahn	1947	10
	Carpentry	Leonard Koel	1985	10
	Manual of First and Second Fixing Carpentry	Les Goring	2010	10
	The British carpenter	Francis Price	1759	9
	Carpentry and Joinery 3	Porter, Brian	2007	9
	Carpentry made easy, or, The science and art of framing on a new and improved system	William E. Bell	1857	8
	Carpentry made easy	William E. Bell	1857	8
	Things To Make in Your Home Workshop	Arthur Wakeling	1930	8
	The village carpenter	Walter Rose	1937	8
	Principles and practices of light construction	Ronald C. Smith	1963	8
	Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking. Book 2	Tage Frid	1979	8
	Carpentry and Joinery 1	Porter, Brian	2012	8
	The carpenter's new guide	Peter Nicholson	1793	7
	The American house-carpenter	R. G. Hatfield	1845	7
	The complete book of woodwork	Charles Harold Hayward	1955	7
	Boat building techniques illustrated	Richard Birmingham	1984	7
	Carpentry	Floyd Vogt	2006	7
	Circular work in carpentry and joinery	George Collings	1886	6
	A manual of carpentry and joinery	J. W. Riley	1905	6
	The woodworker's bible	Percy W. Blandford	1976	6
	Practical problems in mathematics for carpenters	Harry C. Huth	1979	6
	Carpentry and Joinery for Building Craft Students	Peter Brett	1981	6

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

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