Commission on International Tables

International Tables: all Editions and Editors


A brief publication history of International Tables

The International Tables started in 1935 with the first series, comprising two volumes, under the title Internationale Tabellen zur Bestimmung von Kristallstrukturen. The second series consisted of four volumes and was published between 1952 and 1974 with the title International Tables for X-ray Crystallography. The present third series, International Tables for Crystallography, started in 1983 with the publication of Volume A, followed in 1992 by Volume C, in 1993 by Volume B, in 2001 by Volume F, in 2002 by Volume E, in 2003 by Volume D, in 2004 by Volume A1, in 2005 by Volume G and in 2019 by Volume H. From 2021, early view versions of chapters for Volume I have been published online. Comparison of the titles of these series reveals the progressively more general nature of the tables, extending the original topics of symmetry and X-ray structure determination towards incorporation of electron and neutron diffraction techniques, as well as fundamentals of crystallography and physical and chemical crystal data. In 1985, a Brief Teaching Edition of Volume A was published, the sixth edition of which is now known as the Teaching Edition of International Tables for Crystallography: Crystallographic symmetry.


International Tables for Crystallography

International Tables Online

The full set of all nine volumes is available through Wiley and as richly-interlinked full-text html and pdfs on the International Tables Online web site developed by the IUCr.

  • 2006 to date. Editors: C. P. Brock, M. I. Aroyo, Th. Hahn, H. Wondratschek, U. Mueller, U. Shmueli, T. R. Welberry, E. Prince, A. Authier, V. Kopsky, D. B. Litvin, E. Arnold, D. M. Himmel, M. G. Rossmann, S. R. Hall, B. McMahon, C. J. Gilmore, J. A. Kaduk, H. Schenk, C. T. Chantler, F. Boscherini and B. Bunker

Volume A: Space-group symmetry

  • 1983 1st Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 1984 corrected reprint of 1st Edition
  • 1987 2nd Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 1989 corrected reprint of 2nd Edition
  • 1992 3rd Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 1995 4th Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 1996 corrected reprint of 4th Edition
  • 1998 reprint of 1996 corrected reprint
  • 2002 5th Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 2005 corrected reprint of 5th Edition
  • 2011 corrected reprint of 5th Edition
  • 2016 6th Edition, Editor: M. I. Aroyo

Volume A1: Symmetry relations between space groups

  • 2004 1st Edition, Editors: H. Wondratschek and U. Mueller
  • 2008 corrected reprint of 1st Edition
  • 2010 2nd Edition, Editors: H. Wondratschek and U. Mueller

Volume B: Reciprocal space

  • 1993 1st Edition, Editor: U. Shmueli
  • 1996 corrected reprint of 1st Edition
  • 2001 2nd Edition, Editor: U. Shmueli
  • 2008 3rd Edition, Editor: U. Shmueli

Volume C: Mathematical, physical and chemical tables

  • 1992 1st Edition, Editor: A. J. C. Wilson
  • 1995 Corrected reprint of 1st Edition
  • 1999 2nd Edition, Editors: A. J. C. Wilson and E. Prince
  • 2004 3rd Edition, Editor: E. Prince
  • 2011 corrected reprint of 3rd Edition
  • 2021- Early view chapters for 4th Edition online, Editor: T. R. Welberry

Volume D: Physical properties of crystals

  • 2003 1st Edition, Editor: A. Authier
  • 2010 corrected reprint of 1st Edition
  • 2014 2nd Edition, Editor: A. Authier

Volume E: Subperiodic groups

  • 2002 1st Edition, Editors: V. Kopský and D. B. Litvin
  • 2010 2nd Edition, Editors: V. Kopský and D. B. Litvin

Volume F: Crystallography of biological macromolecules

  • 2001 1st Edition, Editors: M. G. Rossmann and E. Arnold
  • 2012 2nd Edition, Editors: E. Arnold, D. M. Himmel and M. G. Rossmann

Volume G: Definition and Exchange of Crystallographic Data

  • 2005 1st Edition, Editors: S. R. Hall and B. McMahon
  • 2011 corrected reprint of 1st Edition

Volume H: Powder Diffraction

  • 2019 1st Edition, Editors: C. J. Gilmore, J. A. Kaduk and H. Schenk

Volume I: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Related Techniques

  • 2021- Early view chapters for 1st Edition online, Editors: C. T. Chantler, F. Boscherini and B. Bunker

Teaching Edition of International Tables for Crystallography: Crystallographic symmetry

(Editions 1 to 5 were known as the Brief Teaching Edition of Volume A)

  • 1985 1st Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 1988 2nd Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 1989 corrected reprint of 2nd Edition
  • 1993 3rd Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 1996 4th Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 1999 reprint of 4th Edition
  • 2002 5th Edition, Editor: Th. Hahn
  • 2005 corrected reprint of 5th Edition
  • 2010 reprint of 2005 corrected reprint
  • 2021 6th Edition, Editor: M. I. Aroyo

International Tables for X-ray Crystallography

Volume I: Symmetry groups

  • 1952 1st Edition, Editors: N. F. M. Henry and K. Lonsdale
  • 1965 2nd Edition, Editors: N. F. M. Henry and K. Lonsdale
  • 1969 3rd Edition, Editors: N. F. M. Henry and K. Lonsdale
  • 1976 reprint of 3rd Edition

Volume II: Mathematical tables

  • 1959 1st Edition, Editors: J. S. Kasper and K. Lonsdale
  • 1967 2nd Edition, Editors: J. S. Kasper and K. Lonsdale
  • 1972 3rd Edition, Editors: J. S. Kasper and K. Lonsdale
  • 1985 reprint of 3rd Edition
  • 1989 reprint of 3rd Edition

Volume III: Physical and chemical tables

  • 1962 1st Edition, Editors: C. H. MacGillavry and G. D. Rieck
  • 1968 2nd Edition, Editors: C. H. MacGillavry and G. D. Rieck
  • 1983 reprint of 2nd Edition
  • 1985 reprint of 2nd Edition

Volume IV: Revised and supplementary tables to Volumes II and III

  • 1974 1st Edition, Editors: J. A. Ibers and W. C. Hamilton
  • 1989 reprint of the 1st Edition

International Tables for the Determination of Crystal Structures

First Volume: Tables on the theory of groups

(contains complete three-dimensional space-group tables)

  • 1935 1st Edition, Editor C. Hermann
  • 1944 Revised Edition, with corrections collected by A. L. Patterson and J. D. H. Donnay

Second Volume: Mathematical and physical tables

  • 1935 1st Edition, Editor C. Hermann
  • 1944 Revised Edition as above


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