📚 Terms and Phrases

Books with terms and phrases on their catalogue record, first published between 1557 and 2007, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject terms and phrases in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 10,762 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
	On the sublime	Longinus	1612	113
	The Book of Household Management	Isabella Beeton	1861	55
	Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable	Ebenezer Cobham Brewer	1870	39
	Dictionary of Americanisms	John Russell Bartlett	1848	36
	Institutiones	Justinian I, the Great, Emperor of Byzantine	1557	26
	Medical Terminology	Marjorie Canfield Willis	1996	21
	Noblesse oblige	Nancy Mitford	1956	19
	A glossary of literary terms	M. H. Abrams	1957	16
	Judicial dictionary of words and phrases	Frederick Stroud	1903	15
	Fragments d'un discours amoureux	Roland Barthes	1977	15
	Dictionnaire érotique moderne	Alfred Delvau	1891	13
	Regards sur la langue française	Marcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen	1950	13
	Poetry handbook	Babette Deutsch	1957	13
	Onomasticon	Julius Pollux	1824	12
	Wordpower	Edward de Bono	1977	11
	The Deeper Meaning of Liff	Douglas Adams	1990	10
	An exaltation of larks	James Lipton	1968	9
	A chocolate moose for dinner	Fred Gwynne	1976	9
	Beyond Words	John Humphrys	2006	9
	A dictionary of clichés	Eric Partridge	1940	8
	The Bedford glossary of critical and literary terms	Ross C. Murfin	1997	8
	Legal thesaurus	Burton, William C.	1980	7
	A handbook to literature	William Harmon	1996	7
	Idioms	Dilin Liu	2007	7
	An béal beo	Tomás Ó Máille	1936	6
	A handbook to literature	C. Hugh Holman	1972	6
	What's what, a visual glossary of the physical world	Reginald Bragonier	1981	6
	Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things	Linda Berdoll	1993	6
	Critical terms for art history	Robert S. Nelson	1996	6
	Dictionary of sociology	Henry Pratt Fairchild	1944	5

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

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