📚 Guilds

Craft organised: the medieval livery companies, their privileges, and the apprenticeship system they ran.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject guilds 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
	Merchant And Craft Guilds	Ebenezer Bain	1887	13
	The gilds and companies of London	George Unwin	1908	13
	Guilds in the Middle Ages	Georges Renard	1918	9
	The guilds of Peking	John Stewart Burgess	1928	8
	The history of the twelve great livery companies of London	Herbert, William	1834	7
	English gilds	Joshua Toulmin Smith	1870	7
	The Guildry Of Edinburgh	James Colston	1887	7
	The incorporated trades of Edinburgh with an introductory chapter on the rise and progress of municipal government in Scotland	James Colston	1891	7
	The gilds of China	Hosea Ballou Morse	1909	7
	Notizen aus der Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Gewerkschaftsgeschichte vom 14. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart	Rudolf Herbig	1963	7
	From Artisan to Worker	Michael P. Fitzsimmons	2010	7
	Histoire de la Communauté des Marchands fréquentant la rivière de Loire et fleuves descendant en icelle	Philippe Mantellier	1864	6
	The Gild merchant	Charles Gross	1890	5
	The gilds of China, with an account of the gild merchant or Co-hong of Canton	Hosea Ballou Morse	1909	5
	Corporate life in ancient India	Ramesh Chandra Majumdar	1918	5
	Local government in ancient India	Radhakumud Mookerji	1919	5
	The English craft gilds	Stella Kramer	1927	5
	The Guilds of the City of London	Ernest Pooley	1945	5
	Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800	S. R. Epstein	2008	5
	Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries	Catharina Lis	2017	5
	The meaning of industrial freedom	G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole	1918	4
	Histoire des corporations de métiers	Étienne Martin Saint-Léon	1922	4
	Zur Entstehung des deutschen Zunftwesens	Wilhelm Stieda	1876	3
	Two Thousand Years Of Gild Life Or An Outline Of The History And Development Of The Gild System From Early Times	J. Malet Lambert	1891	3
	The influence and development of English gilds	Francis Aidan Hibbert	1891	3
	Die Gewerbe der Stadt Münster bis zum jahre 1661	Robert Krumbholtz	1898	3
	The cathedral builders	Leader Scott	1899	3
	The Guilds of the City of London and their liverymen	John Charles Thornley	1911	3
	The Gild of St. Mary, Lichfield	Lichfield (England). Gild of St. Mary.	1920	3
	Handwerksrecht und Handwerkswirtschaft um 1800	Wolfram Fischer	1955	3

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

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