📚 Hymns

Congregational song and its authors: Watts and Newton’s shelves, and the tune-name indexes beside them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject hymns 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 Book of Psalmes	Thomas Sternhold	1533	233
	The Roman Breviary	Catholic Church	1200	140
	The Christian year	John Keble	1827	51
	Hymns for infant minds	Zulfikar Ghose	1809	36
	Carmina Gadelica	Carmichael, Alexander	1900	35
	Book for boys and girls	John Bunyan	1686	34
	The new hymn book	Sebastian Streeter	1829	32
	Hymns for infant minds	Ann Taylor	1812	26
	Hymns for New-Year's-Day	John Wesley	1749	22
	Olney hymns	Newton, John	1779	22
	Hymns of faith and hope	Horatius Bonar	1857	19
	Some remarkable passages in the life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner	Philip Doddridge	1747	18
	Hymns for Ascension-Day	John Wesley	1747	17
	Hymns, and spiritual songs	Henry Alline	1786	16
	A Selection of hymns from the best authors	John Rippon	1787	16
	Music in the history of the western church	Edward Dickinson	1902	16
	The whole book of Psalms, in metre	Episcopal Church	1793	14
	A Dictionary Of Hymnology	John Julian	1891	14
	English Hymns: Their Authors and History	Samuel Willoughby Duffield	1886	13
	A collection of hymns for social worship	George Whitefield	1753	12
	Lyra Germanica	Catherine Winkworth	1855	12
	Pentecostal hymns	Henry Date	1894	12
	Story Of Hymns & Tunes	Hezekiah Butterworth	1906	11
	Hymns founded on various texts in the Holy Scriptures	Philip Doddridge	1755	10
	Youth liable to sudden death; excited seriously to consider thereof, and speedily to prepare therefor	Israel Holly	1766	10
	Geistliche Lieder	Bernhard Henrich Sasse	1799	10
	Hymni Latini medii aevi	Franz Joseph Mone	1853	10
	Story Of The Hymns	Hezekiah Butterworth	1875	10
	People's mass book : voice book	Catholic Church	1877	10
	A history of fishes	J. R. Norman	1931	10

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

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