📚 Roads

The metalled line: Roman statutes to the macadam family, and the engineering literature that keeps them passable.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject roads 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
	Bill	Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly.	2002	720
	Az ember tragédiája	Imre Madách	1897	60
	Lives of the engineers	Samuel Smiles	1861	33
	The C.T.C. route book	Cyclists' Touring Club.	1931	27
	The traveller's pocket-book	John Ogilby	1760	21
	Owen's new book of roads	William Owen	1777	20
	The 'contour' road book of England	Harry R. G. Inglis	1897	19
	The old road (from Canterbury to Winchester)	Hilaire Belloc	1904	19
	Cary's new itinerary	John Cary	1798	15
	Introduction to managerial accounting	Peter C. Brewer	2003	14
	靑海省志	青海省地方志编纂委员会	1993	13
	Roman roads in Britain	Thomas Codrington	1903	12
	Orange County street guide & directory	Thomas Bros. Maps	1986	12
	Big Road Atlas Europe	Automobile Association (Great Britain)	1983	11
	Roads	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads	1921	10
	Finance and roads	British Road Federation.	1964	10
	Toll financing of U.S. highways	Suzanne Schneider	1985	10
	(Circular.) To the owners of landed property, bounded by, or near the Wissahickon road	Gershom Johnson	1800	9
	Remarks on the present system of road making	John Loudon M'Adam	1816	9
	Geschichte des Hellenismus	Johann Gustav Bernhard Droysen	1836	9
	A manual of the principles and practice of road-making	W. M. Gillespie	1848	8
	Bibliography of road-making and roads in the United Kingdom	Dorothy Ballen	1914	8
	The road	Hilaire Belloc	1923	8
	Road Act (1784)	New York (State)	1793	7
	Road Act (1797)	New York (State)	1797	7
	Paterson's roads	Daniel Paterson	1822	7
	Modern Road Construction	Francis Wood	1912	7
	An actual survey of the great post-roads between London and Edinburgh	Mostyn John Armstrong	1776	6
	The road and the roadside	Burton Willis Potter	1886	6
	The construction of roads and streets	Henry Law	1887	6

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

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