📚 Symbolism

Books with symbolism on their catalogue record, first published between 1874 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject symbolism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 46,114 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	Dream Psychology	Sigmund Freud	2017	46
	Philosophy in a new key	Susanne Katherina (Knauth) Langer	1942	44
	The collected works of C.G. Jung	Carl Gustav Jung	1953	34
	The lost language of symbolism	Harold Bayley	1912	28
	Diccionario de símbolos tradicionales	Juan Eduardo Cirlot	1962	28
	The Book of Signs	Rudolf Koch	1923	25
	Images et symboles	Mircea Eliade	1952	22
	Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido	Carl Gustav Jung	1912	20
	Über den Traum	Sigmund Freud	1901	17
	Langages de l'art	Nelson Goodman	1968	17
	Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism	Thomas Inman	1874	11
	Dictionnaire des symboles	Chevalier, Jean	1969	11
	Dictionary of symbols and imagery	Ad de Vries	1974	10
	A practical guide to Qabalistic symbolism	Gareth Knight	1965	9
	Theory of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)	Umberto Eco	1976	8
	Islamic Architecture	Robert Hillenbrand	1988	8
	Symbolism	Alfred North Whitehead	1927	7
	The secret language of symbols	David Fontana	1993	6
	Your days are numbered	Florence Campbell	1931	5
	Symboler	Carl G. Liungman	1974	5
	The Secret Teachings of All Ages	Manly Palmer Hall	1978	5
	The Meaning of Masonry	W. L. Wilmshurst	1980	5
	Symbolism	Steven Olderr	1986	5
	The woman's dictionary of symbols and sacred objects	Barbara G. Walker	1988	5
	Lexikon der Symbole	Becker, Udo.	1992	5
	The illustrated signs & symbols sourcebook	Adele Nozedar	2010	5
	The symbolic uses of politics	Murray J. Edelman	1964	4
	The mythic image	Joseph Campbell	1974	4
	Freemasonry	W. Kirk MacNulty	1991	4
	Element Encyclopedia of Secret Signs and Symbols	Adele Nozedar	2008	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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