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Books with details on their catalogue record, first published between 1570 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject details in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,476 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
	The Stones of Venice	John Ruskin	1851	144
	The construction of buildings	Robin Barry	1958	34
	An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England	Thomas Rickman	1817	33
	The Classical Language of Architecture	John N. Summerson	1707	28
	A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture	Sir William Chambers	1791	26
	Quattro libri dell'architettura	TETRIS	1570	20
	Metric Handbook	Pamela Buxton	2015	15
	The beauties of modern architecture	Minard Lafever	1835	14
	Architectural graphic standards	Charles George Ramsey	1970	14
	Elements of Style, the	Stephen Calloway	1991	14
	The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer	Batty Langley	1758	13
	Practical architecture, or A sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science	William Halfpenny	1724	12
	The rudiments of architecture	Asher Benjamin	1814	11
	Specimens of Gothic architecture	Augustus Pugin	1821	11
	The American house carpenter	R. G. Hatfield	1844	11
	Analysis of ornament	Ralph Nicholson Wornum	1856	11
	The American Vignola	Ware, William R.	1902	11
	House construction details	Nelson Lincoln Burbank	1939	11
	Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors	Rosemary Kilmer	2009	11
	A manual of historic ornament	Glazier, Richard	1899	10
	Landscape detailing	Michael Littlewood	1984	10
	Designing Commercial Interiors	Christine M. Piotrowski	2010	10
	Architecture In Detail Ii	Graham Bizley	2010	9
	Elements of style in furniture and woodwork	Robert Brook	1889	8
	Landscape architectural graphic standards	Leonard J. Hopper	2007	8
	Architecture toscane	Auguste Henri Victor Grandjean de Montigny	1837	7
	Architectural graphic standards for architects, engineers, decorators, builders, and draftsmen	Charles George Ramsey	1932	7
	Architectural graphic standards	Charles G. Ramsey	1932	7
	Principles of element design	Peter Rich	1977	7
	Building your own house	Robert Roskind	1984	7

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

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