📚 Plumbing

Pipes within walls: the trade’s craft literature, its codes, and the disasters of doing it badly.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject plumbing 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
	Elements of plumbing	Samuel Edward Dibble	1918	12
	Plumbing	Steve Muscroft	2005	12
	The plumbers handbook	Joseph P. Almond	1971	9
	Modern plumbing	E. Keith Blankenbaker	1978	8
	Mechanical and electrical systems in buildings	Richard R. Janis	2004	8
	City and Guilds Textbook	Peter Tanner	2018	8
	Plumbing	F. Hall	1970	7
	Home plumbing handbook	Charles McConnell	1976	7
	Plumbing	Roy Treloar	1994	7
	Modern plumbing illustrated	Robert Macy Starbuck	1900	6
	Practical up-to-date plumbing	George B. Clow	1906	5
	Gray's plumbing design and installation	William Beall Gray	1916	5
	Plumbing repairs simplified	Donald R. Brann	1967	5
	Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Library	Charles McConnell	1977	5
	Plumbing	G. J. Blower	1984	5
	Plumbing technology	Smith, Lee	1989	5
	Modern plumbing	E. Keith Blankenbaker	1993	5
	Plumbing	NCCER	2001	5
	Ultimate Guide	Editors of Creative Homeowner	2017	5
	Plumbing Principles and Practice	Syed Azizul Haq	2021	5
	A practical treatise on the joints made and used by builders in the construction of various kinds of engineering and architectural works	Wyvill James Christy	1882	4
	Plumbing	A.L. Townsend	1969	4
	Plumbing	Time-Life Books	1976	4
	Plumbers handbook	Howard C. Massey	1978	4
	Modern plumbing for old and new houses	Jay W. Hedden	1979	4
	Plumbing encyclopaedia	Roy Treloar	1996	4
	Plumbing estimating methods	Joseph J. Galeno	1999	4
	Sanitary fittings & plumbing	George Lister Sutcliffe	1901	3
	Principles and practice of plumbing	John Joseph Cosgrove	1906	3
	Principles and practice of plumbing	J. J. Cosgrove	1906	3

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

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