THE ON-LINE BOOKS ON BONSAI
AND RELATED ARTS

(bonsai, bonseki, bonkei, saikei, penjing, pentsai, suiseki)

 
 

         Cathey, Henry M.   Growing Bonsai ; United States Department of Agriculture; 1977. Home and Garden Bulletin No. 206.  Originally issued August 1973.  Slightly revised Feb. 1977.  21 pp.  Nine b&w photos and six line drawings.  Prepared by author.

         Chute, Elizabeth   The Ancient Art of Bonsai, http://www.canadiancountrywoman.com/books/bonsai.pdf.  © 2002.  23 pp.  Seventeen color photos and seven line drawings.   New 05/23/06

          Del Tredici, Peter  "From Temple to Terrace, The Remarkable Journey of the Oldest Bonsai in America" (Jamaica, MA: Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University: Arnoldia 64/2-3, 2006), pp. 2-30+.  This is basically an updated and revised edition of Del Tredici's 1989 Early American Bonsai: The Larz Anderson Collection of the Arnold Arboretum (which itself began as an issue of the Arnoldia.)    New 12/29/07

F/E     Doucet, Dominique   The eBook on Bonsai, http://www.monbonsai.com/fr/intro.htm . "©All right reserved MH Concept Graphique June 1998."  The earliest known Internet work on the subject.  Partially translated into English.

           Hemy,  Capel   How to Grow Miniature Trees, Full instructions for practising the ancient art of BONSAI ; Supplement to Farmer's Weekly, Bloemfontein, January 25, 1967.  20 pp.  17 photographs and seven line drawings.

          Levin, Michael and  David Babik   Ask Dr. Bonsai, A Care and Maintenance Manual for the Beginning Bonsai Gardener ; Littleton, MA: Bonsai West; 1993.

      Maumené, Albert  Les Arbes nains japonais, Leur formation au Japon, Leur utilisation et leur traitement eu Europe ; Paris: Librairie Horticole; 1902.  60 pp.  Sixteen b&w photos. The earliest known work in a European language entirely on the subject.  E-texte edition 2002.

          Roffey, Allen C.   The Bonsai Primer ; Dagenham, Essex, U.K.  1995-2005.  Web site is 18 Mb in size; also available as a 250+ Mb CD-ROM.

          Rutledge, Andy   Artistic Foundations of Bonsai Design, Elements of Meaningful Composition ; BTO Journal Publications; 2003.

          Zane, Thomas L.   Intermediate Bonsai, A Course Syllabus ; Daytona Beach, FL: Backyard Bonsai, 1997-2003.  197 pp.  B&w line drawing illustrations by Norman Haddrick.

 


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