📚 Grammar

The rules and the fights about them: the prescriptive schoolbooks, the descriptive turn, and the usage industry.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject grammar in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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
	English grammar	Lindley Murray	1795	126
	Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar	Lindley Murray	1800	118
	How to Speak and Write Correctly	Joseph Devlin	1910	68
	Syntactic structures	Noam Chomsky	1900	43
	Simon & Schuster handbook for writers	Lynn Quitman Troyka	1987	36
	Latin grammar	Basil L. Gildersleeve	1867	25
	A Sanskrit grammar for students	Arthur Anthony Macdonell	1927	21
	A practical English grammar	A. J. Thomson	1964	21
	The least you should know about English	Paige Wilson	1994	21
	Sanskrit Grammar	William Dwight Whitney	1879	20
	English Grammar and Composition	John E. Warriner	1963	19
	The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation	Jane Straus	1997	17
	The St. Martin's Guide to Writing	Rise B. Axelrod	1985	16
	Understanding and using English grammar	Betty Schrampfer Azar	1981	14
	Grammar-land	M. L. Nesbitt	1885	13
	Workbook for Wheelock's Latin Grammar	Paul T. Comeau	1979	12
	Prentice-Hall grammar and composition	Gary Forlini	1983	12
	Introducing English grammar	David J. Young	1984	12
	Kites sail high	Ruth Heller	1988	12
	Morphology	Francis Katamba	1993	12
	Essential Grammar in Use	Raymond Murphy	1994	12
	Wheelock's Latin	Frederic M. Wheelock	1995	12
	The French language	A. Ewert	1933	11
	An introductory English grammar	Norman C. Stageberg	1965	11
	Help Is on the Way for	Marilyn Berry	1985	11
	Egyptian Grammar	Alan Henderson Gardiner	1927	9
	Modern English	Marcella Frank	1972	9
	Understanding English grammar	Martha Kolln	1982	9
	Griechische Grammatik	Eduard Schwyzer	1939	8
	Reading Greek	Joint Association of Classical Teachers.	1978	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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