📚 Metals

Books with metals on their catalogue record, first published between 1858 and 1997, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 20 works carrying the subject metals in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 27,468 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
	[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents	1858	240
	Metals handbook	American Society for Metals	1948	29
	Metal Ions in Biological Systems	Helmut Sigel	1973	21
	Techniques of metals research	R. F. Bunshah	1968	19
	Forgerons et alchimistes	Mircea Eliade	1956	17
	The science and practice of welding	A. C. Davies	1941	16
	Metal forming	William F. Hosford	1990	12
	Materials science and metallurgy	Herman W. Pollack	1973	5
	Asm Handbook	ASM	1989	5
	Mechanisms of inorganic reactions	Fred Basolo	1958	3
	Manufacturing processes and materials for engineers	Doyle, Lawrence E.	1961	3
	The Colouring, Bronzing, and Patination of Metals	Richard Hughes	1983	3
	Metal colouring	David Fishlock	1962	2
	Failure of materials in mechanical design	J. A. Collins	1981	2
	An atlas of metal damage	Lothar Engel	1981	2
	Phosphating and metal pre-treatment	D. B. Freeman	1986	2
	SAE fatigue design handbook	Society of Automotive Engineers Staff	1997	2
	Fundamentals of metal fatigue analysis	Julie A. Bannantine	1990	1
	The phosphating of metals	Werner Rausch	1990	1
	The metals databook	Alok Nayar	1997	1

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

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