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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. (Printed for the author by W. Pollard, 1874), by Henry Thomas Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bell towers and bell hanging, an appeal to architects. (Longmans, Green and co., 1914), by Arthur Percival Heywood, Ernest Alexander Young, and Edwin Hugh Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. (Lockwood & co., 1874), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bells; an anthology (R. G. Badger, 1912), by Mary Jane Howland Taber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to the art of music in America by the music industries of Boston, 1640-1936 (H. W. Wilson, 1937), by Christine Merrick Ayars (page images at HathiTrust)
• English type carillonic bells; their history and music (Schulmerich Electronics, 1949), by Arthur Lynds Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bell: its origin, history, and uses. (G. Bell, 1848), by Alfred Gatty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient church bells in England; their inscriptions, founders' trade marks, and measurements, together with some notice of the early bell founders. ([Laindon? Essex, Eng.], 1898), by Edward Andrews Downman (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (J.H. Parker, 1857), by W. C. Lukis (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• De beiaard van Aalst. (Beiaardschool, 1927), by Georges van Doorslaer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bells over Belgium. (Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), by Kamiel Lefévere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church bells of England (H. Frowde, 1912), by H. B. Walters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Variétés campanaires (Veuve de Backer, 1905), by Fernand Donnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le symbolisme de la cloche dans ses rapports et ses harmonies avec la réligion (Imprimerie de Henri Oudin, 1859), by Prêtre du clergé paroissial (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glockenkunde. (T.O. Weigel, 1884), by Heinrich Otte (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bells of England (Methuen, 1907), by John James Raven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verhandeling van de klokken en het klokke-spel : waer in behalven de opkomst van het klokkespel, alles wat omtrent de klokken aenmerkelyk is, als: de stoffe, gewigt, grootte, en klank der zelve, mitsgaders de compositie regels voor de ton, en de nodige wetenshcap van't versteeken, wort voorgestelt; benevens een kort bericht van de outheit, gebruky, misbruyk, en doppen der klokken, als ook van zogenaemde wonderklokken (W. Kroon, 1738), by Johan Philip Albrecht Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travel search for bells (Lightner publishing company, 1944), by Adolph C. 1872- Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Essex : their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and uses (W. Jolly, 1909), by Cecil 1843-1929 Deedes and Henry Beauchamp Walters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church bells: their uses, their romance, and their history. (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (W. Jolly, 1897), by F. C. Eeles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Somerset : to which is added an olla podrida of bell matters of general interest (W. Pollard, 1875), by Henry Thomas Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bell catalogue, A.D. 1894. (Loughborough, 1894), by John Taylor & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-bell catalogue, Jubilee year, A.D. 1887. (Loughborough, 1887), by John Taylor & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Testimonials to John Taylor & Co., bell founders, Loughborough, Leicestershire. (Loughborough, 1901), by John Taylor & Co (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 (Miller and Leavins, 1874), by John L'Estrange (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (E. Stock, 1883), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Leicestershire : their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with chapters on bells and the Leicester bell founders (S. Clarke, 1876), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Northamptonshire : their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with chapters on bells and the Northants bell founders (S. Clarke, 1878), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Rutland: their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses; with chapters on bells and bell founders. (S. Clarke., 1880), by Thomas North (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 (S. Clarke, 1882), by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Huntingdonshire : their inscriptions, founders, uses, traditions, etc. (Jarrold, 1899), by Theodore Montague Nugent Owen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church bells of Hertfordshire; their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses. (Stock, 1886), by Thomas North and John Charles Lett Stahlschmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Holderness (W. Andrews, 1898), by Godfrey Richard Park (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Suffolk; a chronicle in nine chapters, with a complete list of the inscriptions on the bells, and historical notes. (Jarrold and sons, 1890), by John James Raven (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bells of England (E. P. Dutton &com., 1906), by John James Raven (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Kent: their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions. (E. Stock, 1887), by John Charles Lett Stahlschmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Warwickshire; their founders, inscriptions, traditions and uses (Cornish, 1910), by Henry Timothy Tilley and Henry Beauchamp Walters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church bells (A. R. Mowbray & Co., 1908), by H. B. Walters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book about bells (Andrews, 1898), by Geo. S. Tyack (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Buckinghamshire, their inscriptions, founders, and uses, and traditions; &c. (Jarrold & sons, 1897), by Alfred Heneage Cocks (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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" (W. Pollard, 1872), by Henry Thomas Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glockenkunde. (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... (Weed, Parsons and co., printers, 1876), by inc. Meneely & company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. (C. Lockwood and Co., 1903), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the bell ... : Historical data collated and published under the direction of Robert B. Ludy ... (Atlantic City, 1923), by Robert Borneman Ludy and Helen M. Lehman (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. (Farncombe & Co., 1915), by Amherst D. Tyssen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. (Lockwood & co, 1883), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Chez Jean de Nully, ruë S. Jacques, à l'image Saint Pierre., 1721), by Jean-Baptiste Thiers and D. de La Croix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dve nvove campane di Campidoglio (Presso Antonio Fulgoni, 1806), by Francesco Cancellieri and Antonio Fulgoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bells of Harvard College (Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1911), by Arthur Howard Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rules & regulations of the Ancient Society of College Youths, held at the "King's Head," Winchester Street, Southwark. (London, 1871), by Ancient Society of College Youths (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church bells and ringing. (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)
• Bells and their uses; a brief work intended for those interested in church and other bells. (Diprose, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von den Glocken; geschichtliche und technische, auch vaterländische mittheilungen über dieselben. (F.C. Heitz, 1862), by Friedrich Wilhelm Edel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bell towers and bell hanging, an appeal to architects. (Bemrose & sons ltd., 1914), by Arthur Percival Heywood, E. Alexander Young, and Edwin Hugh Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cocks and watches and bells (C. Lockwood and Co., 1883), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The carillon in literature; a collection from various authors with some notes on the carillon art (John Lane company;, 1916), by William Gorham Rice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells (C. Virtue and Co., 1868), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bell towers & bell hanging ... (Longmans, 1914), by Arthur Percival Heywood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old church bells and clocks ([s.n.], 1889), by Edward Nash (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bénédiction solennelle des quatre cloches de l'église St-Jean-Baptiste de Québec, dimanche, 23 mai 1886 (s.n.], 1886), by Eglise catholique (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Fête des cloches de Sainte-Claire ([s.n.], 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mélanges. Épigraphie gallo-romaine. Sculpture et architecture médiévales. Campanographie ancienne et moderne. (L. Valat, 1906), by Joseph Berthelé (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Gloucestershire, to which is added a budget of bell matters of general interest (Printed for the author by W. Pollard, 1881), by Henry Thomas Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bells of the church: a supplement to the Church bells of Devon. (printed for the author by William Pollard, 1872), by Henry Thomas Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Change-ringing disentangled : with hints on the direction of belfries, on the management of bells ... (London [England] : Bell, 1880), by Woolmore Wigram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church, academy, tower clock, factory, chime, courthouse, fire-alarm & other bells. (Troy, N.Y., 1878), by Clinton H. Meneely (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of the county of Stafford (Sprague, 1889), by Charles Lynam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theorie des Kirchenbaues vom Standpunkte des Kirchenmusikers und des Redners, mit einer Glockenkunde in ihrer Beziehung zum Kirchenbau, mit vierzehn Abbildungen und zwei Tabellen (A. Ziemsen, 1913), by Johannes Biehle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collection of peals (Published and sold for the Council by Bemrose & Sons, 1903), by Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die orgel unserer zeit in wort und bild ; ein hand- und lehrbuch der orgelbaukunde. (R. Oldenbourg, 1922), by Heinrich Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alte und neue Kirchenglocken. Als ein Katalog der Kirchenglocken im österreichischen Küstenlande und in angrenzenden Gebieten mit Beiträgen zur Geschicte der Gussmeister. (A. Schroll g.m.b.h., 1917), by Anton Gnirs (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to a treatise on the proportions of the constituent parts of bells; and on the relative proportions of bells of different degrees of acuteness and gravity to each other..... (William Stephenson, 1831), by James Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of the belfry. (Hamilton, Adams, & co.; [etc., etc.], 1883), by John Potter Briscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of campanalogia; or, an Essay on the art of ringing; containing in addition to the author's own works, the latest discoveries in the art of ringing, communicated by the most celebrated composers in the kingdom, whose names are attached to their various productions. Part second. (Brook, 1867), by William Sottanstall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church bells of Buckinghamshire : their inscriptions, founders, uses and traditions, etc. (Jarrold, 1897), by Alfred Heneage Cocks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jones & Company, bell founders, and proprietors of the old established Troy Bell Foundry : manufacturers of church bells, chimes and peals of bells ... and other bells kept constantly on hand. (A.W. Scribner, 1870), by N.Y.) Jones & Company (Troy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of bells and description of their manufacture, as practised at the bell foundry, Whitechapel. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A paper on bells and modern improvements for chiming and carillons ([London, 1875), by George Lund (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the American Bell Association. (Bell Tower, 1954), by American Bell Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les "Cloches et fondeurs de cloches" de M. Louis Régnier et les manuscrits de Phillippe II Cavillier la pyrotechnie et l'oeuvre campanale. (H. Delesques, 1896), by Joseph Berthelé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une fonte de cloches au temps jadis. (Poitiers, Blais, Roy, 1890), by Joseph Berthelé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice historique sur les cloches, suivie des priéres et cérémonies pour la bénédiction des cloches d'aprés le Pontifical romain, avec le chant noté et la traduction compléte en regard. (Farnier, 1882), by Ferdinand Farnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La campanomanie, poëme sur l'abus des cloches. (L. Frémont, 1899), by Henri Jadart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Church bells and ringing (Masters, 1861), by William Thomas Maunsell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes sur la bénédiction, la vertu et le role social de la cloche : avec les psaumes, les prières et les cérémonies de son bapteme. (Cassard Freres, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quels sont les produits actuellement connus des célébres batteurs de cuivre & fondeurs de cloches du nom de Grognart? ([s.n.], 1910), by Armand de Behault de Dornon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La sonnerie de la Collégiale Notre-Dame de Huy. (Charpentier et Foncoux, 1914), by H. Demaret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notice historique et liturgique sur les cloches de St. Bénigne, cathédrale de Dijon. Bénédiction solennelle de trois nouvelles cloches le Dimanche 15 mars 1863 ([s.n.], 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cloches diverses de l'arrondissement de Melle. (Ed. Lacuve, 1899), by Joseph Berthelé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La cloche du Sacré-Coeur (La Savoyarde) Discours pronouncé en la Basilique de Montmartre á Paris le dimanche 24 Novembre, 1895 (Devalois, 1895), by A. Pillet (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of church bells (J. H. Parker, 1857), by William Collings Lukis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quelques cloches portugaises. (J. van Hille-de-Backer, 1912), by Fernand Donnet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Albany singing tower; the book of the carillon ([Albany carillon committee], 1927), by William Gorham Rice and Albany Carillon Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bell catalogue, A.D. 1894. (Watts, Eayre, and Arnold, 1900), by Loughborough Taylor (John) & Co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verhandeling van de klokken en het klokke-spel : waer in behalven de opkomst van het klokkespel, alles wat omtrent de klokken aenmerkelyk is, als: de stoff, gewigt, grootte, en klank der zelve, mitsgaders de compositie regels voor de ton, en de nodige wetenschap van't versteeken, wort voorgestelt; benevens een kort bericht van de outheit, gebruyk, misbruyk, en doopen der klokken, als ook van zogenaemde wonderklokken (Muziekantiquariaat "Lelieveld", 1977), by Johan Philip Albrecht Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di diverse antiche inscrizioni e medaglie epitalamiche ritrovate negli stati di S.R.M. Il Re di Sardegna : et due dissertazioni sopra un antico turibolo, a campanello (Nella Stamperia reale, 1781), by Eugene de Levis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dora rail road polonaise (St. Louis : P.L. Huyett & Son, [1868], 1868), by George H. Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bells & bellfounding : a practical treatise upon church bells ([Llewellins & James], in the 20th century) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kleine Glockenkunde : praktisches Handbuch für Kirchenvorstände u. Kirchenmusiker (F. Pustet, 1916), by Karl Walter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Samenwerking van klokgieter en uurwerkmaker [of werktuigkundige als factor bij de ontwikkeling der beiaarden]. ([s.n.], 1922), by Georges van Doorslaer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bells & bellfounding : a practical treatise upon church bells ([Watchung, NJ] : [Albert Saifer], [1984], 1984), by X Y Z. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bells over Belgium (Belgian Govt. Information Center, 1953), by Kamiel Lefèvere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aandeel van België in de ontwikkeling van beiaard en beiaardkunst. (s.n., 1925), by Georges van Doorslaer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• About bells and bell ringing (printed by E. N. Hiller and Sons, 1900), by R. H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Glocken im Friedländischen; eine Wanderung durch deutsche Türme und Glockenstuben. (Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1912), by O. H. Metzger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La famille Cavillier et les fonderies de cloches de Corrépuits, de Solente, d'Amiens, de Beauvais, etc. (H. Delesques, 1907), by Joseph Berthelé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Glockenguss; Materialien zur Besprechung des Schillerschen Liedes von der Glocke. (Verlag der Dürr'schen Buchhandlung, 1903), by J. Geisel and Friedrich Schiller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essais d'archéologie burgeoise; recueil de textes et analyses de documents inédits ou peu connus. Tom. I-III, 2. (imp. de L. de Plancke, 1912), by L. Gilliodts-Van Severen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Church Bells, by H. B. Walters (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells, by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tintinnalogia, or, The art of ringing wherein is laid down plain and easie rules for singing all sorts of plain changes together with directions for pricking and ringing all cross peals with a full discovery of the mystery and grounds of each peal : as also instructions for hanging of bells, with all things belonging thereunto / by a lover of that art. (London : Printed for F.S. and are to be sold by Tho. Archer ..., 1671), by Thomas White and Richard Duckworth (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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