📚 Woodwork

Timber worked: joinery, benches, hand tools, and the finished object that keeps the shop’s reasoning.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject woodwork 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 Reverence for Wood	Eric Sloane	1955	14
	Elementary sloyd and whittling	Gustaf Larsson	1906	12
	General woodworking	Chris Harold Groneman	1952	10
	Modern woodworking	Willis H. Wagner	1967	10
	Woodworking for everybody	John Gerald Shea	1944	9
	Elements of style in furniture and woodwork	Robert Brook	1889	8
	Things To Make in Your Home Workshop	Arthur Wakeling	1930	8
	Wood	John Louis Feirer	1975	8
	Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking. Book 2	Tage Frid	1979	8
	Advanced woodwork and furniture making	John Louis Feirer	1954	7
	The complete book of woodwork	Charles Harold Hayward	1955	7
	Woodworking	Willis H. Wagner	1961	7
	The Woodworker's Handbook	Roger Horwood	2000	7
	The woodworker's bible	Percy W. Blandford	1976	6
	The impractical cabinetmaker	James Krenov	1979	6
	Woodworking for Dummies	Jeff Strong	2003	6
	Woodworking technology	James J. Hammond	1961	5
	Woodwork Theory	P.F. Lye	1971	5
	The Handyman's Book	Paul N. Hasluck	1987	5
	The Encyclopedia of Woodworking Techniques	Jeremy Broun	1993	5
	The woodwright's companion	Roy Underhill	1983	4
	Sam Maloof, woodworker	Sam Maloof	1983	4
	The Essential Woodworker	Robert Wearing	1988	4
	Woodworking for kids	Kevin McGuire	1993	4
	Woodwork for G.C.E. and C.S.E	J. N. Green	1971	3
	Practical & decorative woodworking joints	John E. N. Bairstow	1984	3
	Making woodwork aids & devices	Robert Wearing	1985	3
	The workbench book	Scott Landis	1987	3
	Projects for woodworkers	Unknown author	1987	3
	Shaper handbook	Roger W. Cliffe	1990	3

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

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