📚 Portraits

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with portraits on their catalogue record, first published between 1740 and 2006, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject portraits in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 33,716 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The English Tongue	Thomas Dilworth	1740	198
Oliver Goldsmith	Washington Irving	1840	133
The schoolmasters assistant	Thomas Dilworth	1744	128
The life of Washington	Mason Locke Weems	1800	100
Correspondence	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1865	74
Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 1	Noah Webster	1788	65
The man of the world	Charles Macklin	1781	48
M'Fingal	John Trumbull	1775	41
David Hockney	David Hockney	1968	41
An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking	Noah Webster	1787	37
Henri Cartier-Bresson	Henri Cartier-Bresson	1967	34
Chuck Close	Chuck Close	1975	25
Churchill	Martin Gilbert	1967	24
The Presidents of the United States of America	Frank Burt Freidel	1964	23
Helmut Newton	Helmut Newton	1982	21
Woman's record, or, Sketches of all distinguished women	Sarah Josepha Hale	1853	20
Napoléon	André Maurois	1963	20
Brachygraphy	Gurney, Thomas	1752	19
Robert Mapplethorpe	Robert Mapplethorpe	1981	13
Goethes sämtliche Werke	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1893	12
Train Your Gaze	Roswell Angier	2006	12
Karsh	Yousuf Karsh	1983	11
Greek & Roman portraits	Hekler, Antal	1912	10
Art principles in portrait photography	Otto Walter Beck	1907	8
Churchill, his life in photographs	Randolph S. Churchill	1955	8
The ballad of sexual dependency	Nan Goldin	1986	8
Nadar	Félix Nadar	1965	7
Patrick Demarchelier	Patrick Demarchelier	1995	7
Peter Lindbergh	Peter Lindbergh	1998	7
Album	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	1966	6

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

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