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• Change Ringing: An Introduction to the Early Stages of the Art of Church or Hand Bell Ringing, for the Use of Beginners (second edition; London: J. Masters; Exeter: H. S. Eland, 1872), by Charles Arthur Williams Troyte
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• The handbell choir; a manual for church, school, and community groups. (New York, H. W. Gray Co., c1959), by Doris Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Art and Science of Change Ringing (second edition; London: J. Warner and Sons and McCorquodale and Co., 1879), by William Banister
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• Change-Ringing Disentangled: With Hints on the Direction of Befries, on the Management of Bells, Etc., Etc., Etc. (second edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1880), by Woolmore Wigram (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tintinnalogia: or, The Art of Ringing (London: Printed for F. S., 1671), by Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman (Gutenberg text)
• The bells of the cathedral church of S. Peter, Exon. (Exeter, Printed for the author by W. Pollard, 1874), by Henry Thomas Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. (London, Lockwood & co., 1874), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An account of church bells; with some notices of Wiltshire bells and bell-founders. Containing a copious list of founders, a comparative scale of tenor bells, and inscriptions from nearly five hundred parishes in various parts of the kingdom. (London Oxford, J.H. Parker, 1857), by William Collings Lukis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry of the bells, collected by Samuel Batchelder, jr. ([Cambridge, Mass.] Printed in aid of the Cambridge chime, by H.O. Houghton and Company, 1858), by Samuel Batchelder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Variétés campanaires, par Fernand Donnet. (Anvers, Veuve de Backer, 1905), by Fernand Donnet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Travel search for bells, by A. C. Meyer. (Chicago, Ill., Lightner publishing company, [1944]), by Adolph C. 1872- Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bells and crosses of the Mission inn the Ford paintings of the California missions, ([Riverside? Cal., 1912?]), by Riverside Mission inn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bell foundry, Whitechapel, London E. ... ([London] : Mears & Stainbank, [1885]), by Mears & Stainbank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bell catalogue, A.D. 1894. (Loughborough, 1894), by John Taylor & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Bedfordshire : their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with a brief history of church bells in that county, chiefly from original and contemporaneous records / by Thomas North. (London : E. Stock, 1883), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Leicestershire : their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with chapters on bells and the Leicester bell founders / by Thomas North. (Leicester [England] : S. Clarke, 1876), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Essex : their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and uses / by Cecil Deedes and H.B. Walters. (Aberdeen [Scotland] : W. Jolly, 1909), by Cecil 1843-1929 Deedes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hand-bell catalogue, Jubilee year, A.D. 1887. (Loughborough, 1887), by John Taylor & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Testimonials to John Taylor & Co., bell founders, Loughborough, Leicestershire. (Loughborough, [1901?]), by John Taylor & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Church, clock, hemispherical, and other description of bells. Whitechapel bell foundry. (London, 1919), by Mears & Stainbank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jean-Jacques Huaert, fondeur de cloches. D'aprés ses mémoires et les archives des forgeurs anversois. ([Antwerp, 1902]), by Edm Geudens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Church bells: their uses, their romance, and their history. (Sheffield : Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Hertfordshire; their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses. Compiled and edited by J.C.L. Stahlschmidt. (London : Stock, 1886), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bells; an anthology, (Boston, R. G. Badger, [c1912]), by Mary Jane Howland Taber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of the county and city of Lincoln : their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with a brief history of church bells in Loncolnshire, chiefly from original and contemporaneous records / by Thomas North. (Leicester [England] : S. Clarke, 1882), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Huntingdonshire : their inscriptions, founders, uses, traditions, etc. / by T.M.N. Owen. (London : Jarrold, 1899), by Theodore Montague Nugent Owen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Rutland: their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses; with chapters on bells and bell founders. (Leicester : S. Clarke, 1880), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Northamptonshire : their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with chapters on bells and the Northants bell founders / by Thomas North. (Leicester [England] : S. Clarke, 1878), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contributions to the art of music in America by the music industries of Boston, (New York, The H. W. Wilson company, 1937), by Christine Merrick Ayars (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions. By J.C.L. Stahlschmidt ... (London : E. Stock, 1887), by John Charles Lett Stahlschmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bell: its origin, history and uses. (London, G. Bell, 1848), by Alfred Gatty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Somerset : to which is added an olla podrida of bell matters of general interest / by Henry Thomas Ellacombe. (Exeter [England] : W. Pollard, 1875), by Henry Thomas Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church and other bells of Kincardineshire : being a complete account of all the bells in the county, their history, uses, and ornaments; with notices of their founders, and an article on the more interesting belfries, to which is prefixed a short general survey of bells in Scotland / by F.C.Eeles. (Aberdeen [Scotland] : W. Jolly, 1897), by Francis Carolus Eeles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Suffolk; a chronicle in nine chapters, with a complete list of the inscriptions on the bells, and historical notes. By John James Raven. (London : Jarrold and sons, 1890), by John James Raven (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glockenkunde. Von D.Dr. Heinrich Otte. (Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1884), by Heinrich Otte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glockenkunde. Von Heinrich Otte... (Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1858), by Heinrich Otte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meneely & company, bell-founders, West Troy, N.Y. (opposite Troy); proprietors, since 1851, of the well-known foundery established by Andrew Meneely in 1826; who manufacture to order, and have for sale, a variety of church, academy, factory, depot, fire alarm, steamboat, ship, locomotive, plantation, fire-engine and other bells; as also chimes and peals... ([Albany, N.Y.] Weed, Parsons and co., printers, 1876), by inc. Meneely & company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. By Sir Edmund Beckett, bart.(late E.B. Denison) ... (London, C. Lockwood and Co., 1903), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book about bells / by the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack. (London : Andrews, [1898]), by Geo. S. Tyack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Holderness / by Godfrey Richard Park. (London : W. Andrews, 1898), by Godfrey Richard Park (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Warwickshire; their founders, inscriptions, traditions and uses, by H.T. Tilley and H.B. Walters. (Birmingham : Cornish, 1910), by Henry Timothy Tilley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Sussex, with the inscriptions of all the bells in the county in 1864, and a jubilee article thereon written in 1914. (Lewes, Farncombe & Co., 1915), by Amherst D. Tyssen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traitez des Cloches, et de la Sainteté de l'offrande du Pain et du Vin aux Messes des Morts, non confondu avec le pain & le Vin qu'on offroit sur les Tombeaux. Par M. Jean-Baptiste Thiers, Docteur en Theologie, & Curé de Vibraie. (A Paris, Chez Jean de Nully, ruë S. Jacques, à l'image Saint Pierre., M. DCC. XXI. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy), by Jean-Baptiste Thiers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bells of England, by J.J. Raven. With sixty illustrations. (London : Methuen, [1906]), by John James Raven (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bell towers and bell hanging, an appeal to architects. By Sir Arthur Percival Heywood. With contributions by Edwin H. Lewis, M.A., E. Alexander Young, and others, with an appendix. (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1914), by Arthur Percival Heywood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Church bells, by H. B. Walters ... with thirty-nine illustrations. (London : A. R. Mowbray & Co., [1908]), by H. B. Walters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Buckinghamshire, their inscriptions, founders, and uses, and traditions; &c., by Alfred Heneage Cocks. (London, Jarrold & sons, 1897), by Alfred Heneage Cocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. By Sir Edmund Beckett, bart. (late E.B. Denison) ... (London, Lockwood & co, 1883), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bells of Harvard College, by Arthur Howard Nichols, M.D. (Boston, Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1911), by Arthur Howard Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church bells and ringing. (London : Masters, 1861), by William Thomas Maunsell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bells & bell lore; church bells of the Amounderness and the Archdeaconry of Lancaster. (Preston, 1916), by T. Harrison Myres (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur le symbolisme de la cloche dans ses rapports et ses harmonies avec la réligion / par un prêtre du clergé paroissial. (Poitiers : Imprimerie de Henri Oudin, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry of the bells, collected by Samuel Batchelder, jr. ([Cambridge, Mass.] : Printed in aid of the Cambridge chime, by H.O. Houghton and Company, 1858), by Samuel Batchelder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bells and their uses; a brief work intended for those interested in church and other bells. (London : Diprose, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Church bells of England / by H. B. Walters ... (London, H.Frowde, Oxford university press, New York [etc.] :), by H. B. Walters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bell towers and bell hanging, an appeal to architects. With contributions by Edwin H. Lewis, E. Alexander Young...and others; with an appendix. (London : Bemrose & sons ltd., 1914), by Arthur Percival Heywood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Devon : with a list of those in Cornwall, to which is added a suuplement on various matters relating to the "Bells of the church" / by H. T. Ellacombe. (Exeter [England] : W. Pollard, 1872), by Henry Thomas Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• English type carillonic bells; their history and music by Arthur Lynds Bigelow. (Sellersville, Pa., Schulmerich Electronics, c1949), by Arthur Lynds Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bells over Belgium. (New York, Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), by Kamiel Lefévere (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Norfolk : where, when, and by whom they were made, with the inscriptions on all the bells in the county / by John L'Estrange. (Norwich [England] : Miller and Leavins, 1874), by John L'Estrange (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bells of England / by J.J. Raven. (London : Methuen, 1907), by John James Raven (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells / by Edmund Beckett Denison. (London : C. Virtue and Co., 1868), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. By Sir Edmund Beckett, bart. (London : C. Lockwood and Co., 1883), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells, by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (Gutenberg ebook)

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