📚 Archery

Shoot and score: bows through the ages, the technique, and the long literature of the archer.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject archery 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
	Toxophilus	Roger Ascham	1589	26
	Archery	Wayne C. McKinney	1966	13
	Hunting with the bow and arrow	Saxton T. Pope	1923	11
	Zen in the Art of Archery	Eugen Herrigel	1948	11
	The book of archery	George Agar Hansard	1840	10
	Archery	Kathleen Haywood	1989	10
	Zen in the art of archery	Eugen Herrigel	1953	8
	Toxophilus	Roger Ascham	1571	7
	The archer's craft	Adrian Eliot Hodgkin	1951	7
	Beginning archery	Roy K. Niemeyer	1962	7
	The theory and practice of archery	Horace A. Ford	1887	6
	Longbow	Robert Hardy	1976	6
	Theory & practice of archery	Horace Ford	1887	5
	Map projections	George P. Kellaway	1946	5
	Archery	Natalie Reichart	1940	4
	The complete archery book	Louis Hochman	1957	4
	The history of archery	Edmund H. Burke	1957	4
	New Guide to better archery	Thomas A. Forbes	1960	4
	Archery	Jean A. Barrett	1969	4
	Archery	Lorraine Pszczola	1971	4
	Complete book of the bow and arrow	G. Howard Gillelan	1971	4
	gcan tsha'i mda' rtsed	Bsod-nams-tshe-riṅ Do-rgya	2008	4
	With a bended bow	Erik Roth	2011	4
	Archery, its theory and practice	Horace A. Ford	1856	3
	Modern archery	Frank L. Bilson	1949	3
	Hunting the hard way	Howard Hill	1953	3
	Archery handbook	Edmund H. Burke	1954	3
	Guide to better archery	Thomas A. Forbes	1955	3
	Teach yourself archery	Margherita Emily Richardson	1961	3
	In pursuit of archery	Charles Bertram Edwards	1962	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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