📚 Mosaics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

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Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mosaics 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Emblematum liber	Andrea Alciati	1534	32
Byzantine mosaic decoration	Otto Demus	1948	17
Ravenna mosaics	Giuseppe Bovini	1952	8
The mosaics of Norman Sicily	Otto Demus	1949	6
Sacred fortress	Otto Georg von Simson	1948	5
Ravenna	Giuseppe Bovini	1956	5
Il mosaico di Otranto	Grazio Gianfreda	1990	5
Mosaics	Kaffe Fassett	1999	5
The mosaics of Roman Crete	Rebecca J. Sweetman	2012	5
Mosaic art today	Larry Argiro	1961	4
Making mosaics	Edmond Arvois	1964	4
Roman mosaics of Britain	David S. Neal	2002	4
The Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook	Maggy Howarth	2003	4
Antioch mosaic pavements	Doro Levi	1947	3
Mosaics	Paul Hetherington	1967	3
Hagia Sophia	Heinz Kahler	1967	3
Let's make a mosaic	June Tanner	1968	3
Designing and making mosaics	Virginia Gayheart Timmons	1971	3
Mosaïques antiques de Syrie	Janine Balty	1977	3
Ravenna	Gianfranco Bustacchini	1984	3
Domestic and divine	Christine Kondoleon	1994	3
Antioch Mosaics	Fatih Cimok	1995	3
Making Mosaics	Leslie Dierks	1997	3
Mosaics	Martin Cheek	1997	3
The mosaic sourcebook	Paul Siggins	1997	3
Mosaics	Helen Baird	1998	3
Mosaics	Fran Soler	1998	3
Mosaics (Step By Step)	Michelle Powell	2001	3
Mosaic Art	Martin Cheek	2002	3
Plaster mosaics	Kristin Peck	2003	3

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

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