📚 Classification

Books with classification on their catalogue record, first published between 1748 and 2008, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject classification in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 26,577 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
	Systema naturae	Carl Linnaeus	1748	55
	International catalogue of scientific literature, 1901-1914	Royal Society of London	1901	45
	Classification	Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division.	1904	41
	Dewey decimal classification and relative index	Melvil Dewey	1952	36
	Class-book of botany	Alphonso Wood	1845	35
	Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen	R. Hegnauer	1962	35
	Colon classification	S. R. Ranganathan	1892	33
	Easy Coder	Paul K. Tanaka	1994	26
	Motif-index of folk-literature	Stith Thompson	1932	25
	An introduction to library classification, theoretical, historical and practical, with readings, exercises and examination papers	W. C. Berwick Sayers	1918	24
	Finger prints	Sir Francis Galton	1892	23
	Philosophie zoologique	Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck	1809	21
	Classification	Library of Congress. Classification Division.	1903	20
	A manual of classification for librarians and bibliographers	W. C. Berwick Sayers	1926	19
	International Patent Classification	World Intellectual Property Organization	1975	18
	Library of Congress Classification Schedules Through 1992	Kathleen Droste	1993	17
	The prokaryotes	Martin Dworkin	2006	17
	Philosophia botanica	Carl Linnaeus	1751	16
	Fishes of the world	Joseph S. Nelson	1976	14
	Psychology	David G. Myers	1986	14
	Primitive classification	Émile Durkheim	1963	12
	Introduction to cataloging and classification	Bohdan S. Wynar	1964	12
	Prolegomena to library classification	S. R. Ranganathan	1937	10
	A bibliographic classification	Henry Evelyn Bliss	1940	10
	Methods and principles of systematic zoology	Ernst Mayr	1953	10
	The primary structures of fabrics	Irene Emery	1966	9
	Cataloging and classification	Lois Mai Chan	1981	9
	Outline of world cultures	George Peter Murdock	1954	8
	Library of Congress classification. H. Social sciences	Library of Congress	1994	8
	Fingerprints	Mark R. Hawthorne	2008	8

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

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