📚 The Nobility

Titles and land and the business of keeping both: peerage law, the estates, and the slow democratisation after.

Below are the 9 works carrying the subject nobility 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
	A Distant Mirror	Barbara Tuchman	1600	46
	The peerage of England	Collins, Arthur	1709	25
	Magna Carta ancestry	Douglas Richardson	2005	7
	The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy	David Cannadine	1990	6
	Their noble lordships	Simon Winchester	1978	5
	The Borgias and their enemies	Christopher Hibbert	2008	5
	Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana	Spreti, Vittorio Marchese	1928	4
	Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des grandes familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople	Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza	1983	4
	The heart has its reasons	Wallis Warfield Duchess of Windsor	1956	2

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

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