📚 Punctuation

Books with punctuation on their catalogue record, first published between 1785 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject punctuation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,063 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
	Cyfres Cymeriadau Difyr	Mererid Hopwood	2018	41
	Key to the Exercises adapted to Murray's English grammar	Lindley Murray	1808	24
	How to parse	Edwin Abbott Abbott	1875	18
	The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation	Jane Straus	1997	17
	The elements of English grammar	G. Neville Ussher	1785	16
	The institutes of English grammar, methodically arranged	Goold Brown	1827	16
	English simplified	Blanche Ellsworth	1971	16
	You have a point there	Eric Partridge	1953	14
	A treatise on English punctuation	Wilson, John	1850	11
	Write right!	Jan Venolia	1983	11
	The institutes of English grammar	Goold Brown	1825	10
	General rules for punctuation and for the use of capital letters	Adams Sherman Hill	1874	9
	Essential college English	Selby, Norwood.	1982	9
	Semicolon	Cecelia Watson	2019	8
	English 3200	Joseph C. Blumenthal	1962	7
	Pause and effect	M. B. Parkes	1992	6
	Punctuation Matters	John Kirkman	2006	6
	Shady characters	Keith Houston	2013	6
	Plain English handbook	J. Martyn Walsh	1939	5
	Exercises in punctuation	John Trevaskis	1950	5
	Practical English	Madeline Semmelmeyer	1961	5
	Punctuate It Right	Harry Shaw	1977	5
	English punctuation	Robyn Gee	1983	5
	Better punctuation in 30 minutes a day	Ceil Cleveland	2002	5
	Punctuation	George Paul Macdonell	1893	4
	Why We Punctuate	William Livingston Klein	1916	4
	Biao dian fu hao zen yang shi yong	Jin Xi	1951	4
	Punctuate it right!	Harry Shaw	1963	4
	Instant English handbook	Madeline Semmelmeyer	1968	4
	The complete guide to punctuation	Margaret Enright Wye	1984	4

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

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