📚 Textual Criticism

Books with textual criticism on their catalogue record, first published between 1490 and 2008, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject textual criticism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 13,449 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
	Poems	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1796	232
	En attendant Godot	Samuel Beckett	1952	201
	Rubāʻīyāt	Omar Khayyam	1870	151
	The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II	Emily Dickinson	1890	151
	Poems	William Blake	1783	141
	La Celestina	Fernando de Rojas	1899	94
	The hour-glass	William Butler Yeats	1903	66
	Practical criticism	I. A. Richards	1929	60
	Canto a Mi Mismo	Walt Whitman	1904	59
	Ariel	Sylvia Plath	1965	57
	Comedias	Lope de Vega	1604	52
	De anima	Aristotle	1877	45
	Convivio	Dante Alighieri	1490	44
	Poems	Francisco de Quevedo	1661	30
	Proust et les signes	Gilles Deleuze	1964	30
	Prometheus unbound	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1820	28
	Toxophilus	Roger Ascham	1589	26
	Samguk sagi	Pu-sik Kim	1909	25
	The editorial problem in Shakespeare	Walter Wilson Greg	1942	25
	Misquoting Jesus	Bart D. Ehrman	2005	21
	Blumen-, Frucht- und Dornenstücke oder Ehestand, Tod und Hochzeit des Armenadvokaten F. St. Siebenkäs im Reichsmarktflecken Kuhschnappel	Jean Paul	1845	12
	The wind among the reeds	William Butler Yeats	1899	12
	Novum Testamentum graece	Constantin von Tischendorf	1859	11
	The nun's priest's tale	Geoffrey Chaucer	1907	11
	Theory of literature	René Wellek	1949	11
	Memoir of the controversy respecting the three heavenly witnesses, I John v. 7	William Orme	1830	10
	Myricae	Giovanni Pascoli	1903	10
	The text of the New Testament	Kirsopp Lake	1900	9
	Principles of emendation in Shakespeare	Walter Wilson Greg	1928	9
	Envy and Gratitude Revisited	Alessandra Lemma	2008	9

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

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