📚 Celts

Books with celts on their catalogue record, first published between 1762 and 2001, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject celts in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,377 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Poems of Ossian.	Ossian	1762	81
	Celtic mythology and religion, with chapters upon Druid circles and Celtic burial	Alexander Macbain	1885	26
	Mythology of the British Islands	Charles Squire	1905	24
	The fairy-faith in Celtic countries	W. Y. Evans-Wentz	1911	19
	Myths & legends of the Celtic race	Thomas William Hazen Rolleston	1911	17
	Celtic Tales	Louey Chisholm	1910	16
	The religion of the ancient Celts	John Arnott MacCulloch	1911	15
	The Celts	Norah Kershaw Chadwick	1769	13
	The magic arts in Celtic Britain	Lewis Spence	1938	12
	The Druids	Peter Berresford Ellis	1994	12
	The mythology of ancient Britain and Ireland	Charles Squire	1906	11
	Celtic Mythology	John Arnott MacCulloch	1918	11
	Legendary fictions of the Irish Celts	Patrick Kennedy	1866	10
	Celtic Mysteries	John Sharkey	1975	10
	The greatness and decline of the Celts	Henri Hubert	1934	9
	The Celts	T. G. E. Powell	1958	9
	Celtes et Gallo-Romains	Jean-Jacques Hatt	1970	9
	Les celtes	Duncan Norton-Taylor	1974	9
	Les Celtes au XIXe siècle	Charles de Gaulle	1865	8
	Kelten	Gerhard Herm	1976	8
	Sacred Spaces	Margaret Silf	2001	8
	The Celtic Druids	Godfrey Higgins	1827	6
	Celtic Britain	Rhys, John Sir	1884	6
	The flaming door	Eleanor C. Merry	1962	6
	The Celtic Dawn	Peter Berresford Ellis	1993	6
	The Celtic way of prayer	Esther De Waal	1997	6
	Chronicles of Eri	O'Connor, Roger	1822	5
	Memoirs of the Celts or Gauls	Ritson, Joseph	1827	5
	Celtic Scotland	William Forbes Skene	1876	5
	The Shemetic origin of the nations of Western Europe, and more especially of the English, French, and Irish branches of the Gaelic race	John Pym Yeatman	1879	5

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

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