📚 Drawing

Books with drawing on their catalogue record, first published between 1819 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject drawing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 35,338 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 elements of drawing	John Ruskin	1819	124
	Vincent van Gogh	Vincent van Gogh	1914	114
	Max Ernst	Max Ernst	1956	114
	Leonardo	Leonardo da Vinci	1946	89
	The practice & science of drawing	Harold Speed	1972	59
	Basic perspective drawing	John Montague	1985	21
	Line & form	Walter Crane	1900	19
	Freehand perspective and sketching	Dora Miriam Norton	1909	18
	Pedagogical sketchbook	Paul Klee	1925	17
	The natural way to draw	Kimon Nicolaïdes	1941	17
	Figure Drawing for All It's Worth	Andrew Loomis	1943	13
	Learning to draw	Robert Kaupelis	1966	11
	How to draw plants	Keith R. West	1983	11
	The practice & science of drawing	Harold Speed	1913	10
	Creative illustration	Andrew Loomis	1947	9
	The art of responsive drawing	Nathan Goldstein	1973	9
	Introduction to painting and drawing	John Henn	1986	9
	Drawing	Walter Thomas Foster	1991	9
	Drawing	Claudia Betti	1980	8
	The Artist's Handbook	Angela Gair	1997	8
	Drawing for dummies	Brenda Hoddinott	2003	7
	Sketch Book for the Artist	Sarah Simblet	2004	7
	How to Draw Manga	Hikaru Hayashi	1999	6
	Drawing	Walter Thomas Foster	1997	5
	You Can Draw In 30 Days	Mark Kistler	2011	5
	Drawing made easy	Edwin George Lutz	1921	4
	Drawing with pen and ink	Arthur Leighton Guptill	1961	4
	Jigs and fixtures	Hiram E. Grant	1967	4
	Drawing on the right side of the brain	Betty Edwards	1979	4
	Perspective Drawing	Jane H. James	1980	4

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

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