📚 Palaces

Architecture as statecraft: Versailles’s grid of power and the house-tour literature that kept it famous.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject palaces 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
	Tiryns	Heinrich Schliemann	1885	12
	Versailles	Christopher Hibbert	1972	12
	Shu xue	Zhong Wang	1875	7
	Famous castles and palaces of Italy	Edmund B. D'Auvergne	1900	6
	The palace of Minos	Evans, Arthur Sir	1921	6
	Italian villas and palaces	Georgina Masson	1959	6
	Palazzi di Firenze	Mario Bucci	1971	6
	Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia	Robert Adam	1764	5
	Florentine palaces & their stories	Janet Ross	1900	5
	I palazzi di Roma e le case d'importanza storica e artistica	Luigi Càllari	1932	5
	Royal homes	Gordon Nares	1953	5
	Palaces of Seoul	Edward Ben Adams	1972	5
	Echoes of old Florence	Leader Scott	1894	4
	The palaces of Crete and their builders	A. Mosso	1907	4
	Royal palaces of Scotland	Helen Douglas-Irvine	1911	4
	Royal palaces & gardens	Mima Nixon	1916	4
	The palace of Minos at Knossos	Evans, Arthur Sir.	1921	4
	The royal palace of Falkland	Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk	1957	4
	Italian villas and palaces	Georgina Masson	1959	4
	Great houses of Europe	Sacheverell Sitwell	1961	4
	Palaces and churches of the Kremlin	Karel Neubert	1965	4
	The palaces of Leningrad	Audrey Kennett	1973	4
	Nieborów	Włodzimierz Piwkowski	1978	4
	Guide to the Palace Hotels of India	Cheryl Bentley	1992	4
	Buckingham Palace	John Martin Robinson	1995	4
	Barbarian Lens	Regine Thiriez	1998	4
	Pałace i dwory dawnych Prus Wschodnich	Małgorzata Jackiewicz-Garniec	1999	4
	The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland	Mackie, Charles	1850	3
	Portali e palazzi di Genova	Orlando Grosso	1900	3
	Royal palaces of Spain	Albert Frederick Calvert	1909	3

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

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