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Peate (I.C.): Clock and Watch Makers in Wales
O/P. 107 pages, 7 plates, 2nd edition 1960. A useful book with a listing of Welsh clock and watch makers. A fine copy with very good dust jacket (spine discoloured) (Ref: K548 - F5)

Price: £10.00

Penfold (J.B.): The Clockmakers of Cumberland

Penfold (J.B.): The Clockmakers of Cumberland
O/P. 284 pages, 118 illustrations, 1st edition, signed by author, 1977. This is one of the best books on English counties and has become the most sought after and difficult to find. Many famous clockmakers were born in Cumberland - George Graham, John Barwise, John Brockbank and James Gandy to name a few. This well researched book has information about all the Cumberland makers and is an essential reference book for enthusiasts. A very good copy, the original wrapper now worn and torn.

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(Ref: K872 - F3)

Price: £195.00
Pickford (C.): Bedfordshire Clock & Watchmakers 1352 - 1880

Pickford (C.): Bedfordshire Clock & Watchmakers 1352 - 1880
O/P. 252 pages, 35 plates, 2 figs., 1991. An excellent, well researched book about the clock makers of Bedfordshire with lots of biographical information as well as a brief history of timekeeping in Bedfordshire. This book is now very hard to find. A very good copy, paperback, card covers a little marked.

* Was £55.00, now on special offer at £30.00 *

(Ref: K1358 - D1)

Price: £30.00
Platt (J.G.): Lancashire Watch Company - History and Watches

Platt (J.G.): Lancashire Watch Company - History and Watches
NEW. 528 pages, about 1000 illustrations, 2016. A well researched and definitive account of the Lancashire Watch Company and its Watches. The Company was founded in 1888 for the large-scale production of pocket watches, but after some initial success was dissolved in 1906. This book documents the rise and fall of the company, as well as its watches, and will be of great interest to enthusiasts and collectors. The book includes an analysis of the company's ledgers and reproduces sales catalogues, LWC documents and the auction catalogue from 1911 when the remaining assets of the company were sold. With dust jacket.

* Was £65.00, now on special offer at £45.00 *

(Ref: N3966)

Price: £45.00

Pollard (D.): The Astronomical Clockmaker Edward Cockey, & other Warminster Horologists
O/P. 320 pages, 370 illus., limited edition of 500 copies, 1998. This book contributes to our knowledge of the Cockey family as well as collating all previously published information. The section on other Warminster clockmakers is also useful. Very good copy, card covers (rear cover with small crease). (Ref: K247 - G3)

Price: £50.00

Ponsford (C.N.): Devon Clocks and Clockmakers
O/P. 360 pages, 12 figs., 47 plates, 1985. A good book with lots of information about clock and watch making in Devon with notes on Devonshire makers. A very good copy with very good dust jacket. (Ref: K1288 - D2)

Price: £35.00

Ponsford (C.N.): Time in Exeter
O/P. 200 pages, 50 illustrations, hardback, 1st edition, 1978. A well researched book on the history of 700 years of clockmaking in Exeter. Biographical details are given for more than 300 makers. A good copy with bookplate inside front cover and a dust jacket. (Ref: K812 - D1)

Price: £35.00

Priestley (P.T.): Watch Case Makers of England: A History and Register of Gold and Silver Watch Case makers of England 1720-1920
O/P. 216 pages, 126 figures, 1994. The first half of the book is a detailed review of watch case making, including the development of case styles and watch bow shapes together with a history of English hallmarking and the location and history of the case making trade. The second half of the book contains a fully detailed list of watch case makers and their marks. An essential book for all English pocket watch enthusiasts. A very good copy (inscription on title page), soft covers. (Ref: KW962 - N3)

Price: £25.00

Pryce (W.T.R.) & Davies (T.A.): Samuel Roberts Clock Maker

Pryce (W.T.R.) & Davies (T.A.): Samuel Roberts Clock Maker
O/P. 450 pages, 129 figs., 1985. The definitive work on Samuel Roberts, an eighteenth-century craftsman in the Welsh rural community of Llanfair Caereinion. Roberts produced about 600 clocks and his Account Book for the period 1755 - 1774 is reproduced as an appendix. A very good copy of an excellent book, with very good dust jacket. (Ref: K777 - E6)

Price: £15.00

Quill (H.): John Harrison, Copley Medallist and the £20,000 Longitude prize
O/P. 26 pages, 21 figs., 1976. Published in commemoration of the bicentenary of the death of John Harrison, 24th March 1776. An interesting review of the life of the famous chronometer pioneer and the longitude prize. A very good copy, card covers a little faded. (Ref: K248 - BX2)

Price: £1.00

Quill (H.): John Harrison the Man who Found Longitude

Quill (H.): John Harrison the Man who Found Longitude
O/P. 255 pages, 33 illustrations, 1st and only edition, 1966. An excellent book on the life and work of John Harrison, his 4 marine timepieces and the £20,000 longitude prize. Essential reading for chronometer enthusiasts. A very good copy, the dust jacket with some wear to top edges.

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(Ref: KW1313 - C2)

Price: £135.00

Reid (C.L.): North Country Clockmakers of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries
O/P. 102 pages, 6 plates, 1925. An early and well-known work on the clockmakers of Northern England which is always in demand. A good copy of the original publication contained within a volume of Archaeologia Aeliana. (Ref: K1533 - S2)

Price: £50.00

Robey (J.) Editor: Your Time - Including the Contribution of Northwest England to the Development of Clocks and Watches

Robey (J.) Editor: Your Time - Including the Contribution of Northwest England to the Development of Clocks and Watches
NEW. 136 pages, illustrated in colour, 2008. The catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Northern Section of the Antiquarian Horological Society, with interesting introductions on Chronometers, Watchmaking in Prescot & South Lancashire, Edward Massey's Lever Escapement, Unfinished or Raw Movements, Turret Clocks and the Lancashire Watch Company by Edward Powell, Alan Smith, Alan Treherne and Chris McKay. The interesting text and good illustrations of the 127 exhibits mean that this will be a useful reference book in the years to come. Card covers. (Ref: N1698)

Price: £20.00

Rooney (D.): Ruth Belville - The Greenwich Time Lady
S/H. 192 pages, illustrated, 2008. An interesting book telling the story of how the Belville family sold accurate time to their subscribers in central London from 1836 to 1940 using an 18th century pocket chronometer. Fine copy with fine dust jacket. (Ref: K3744 - V1)

Price: £18.00

Seaby (W.A.): Clockmakers of Warwick and Leamington (to 1850)

Seaby (W.A.): Clockmakers of Warwick and Leamington (to 1850)
O/P. 64 pages, 9 figures, 1981. A useful contribution to knowledge about regional clockmakers. As well as the two towns in the title the book also covers the clockmakers of the nearby villages of Barford, Leek Wootton and Sherbourne. A very good copy, card covers. (Ref: K467 - G5)

Price: £5.00
Severs (D.F.): Northallerton's Clockmakers: Hugh Pannell and his Successors

Severs (D.F.): Northallerton's Clockmakers: Hugh Pannell and his Successors
O/P. 244 pages, 36 plates, signed by author, 1998. Number 150 of 300 copies. A well researched and detailed book about the clocks and clockmakers of this Yorkshire market town. A very good copy, card covers. (Ref: K2196 - G1)

Price: £95.00
Severs (D.F.): Stokesley's Clockmakers - Clockmaking in a North Yorkshire Market Town

Severs (D.F.): Stokesley's Clockmakers - Clockmaking in a North Yorkshire Market Town
NEW. 139 pages, 36 plates, a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, 2008. A well researched book with a detailed account of the 29 clockmakers, and their clocks, who worked in Stokesley between 1740 and 1900. Card covers. (Ref: N1926)

Price: £20.00
Shenton (R.): Christopher Pinchbeck and his Family

Shenton (R.): Christopher Pinchbeck and his Family
NEW. 71 pages, 13 illustrations, 2nd edition, 1976. Christopher Pinchbeck, senior and junior, were both clockmakers but the family is best known for the invention of 'Pinchbeck' alloy and its use in making low cost trinkets. A useful reference book on the family. Still in publisher's card envelope. (Ref: N2920)

Price: £10.00

Smith (J.): Old Scottish Clockmakers from 1453 to 1850
O/P. 436 pages, 25 illus., reprint of 2nd edition, 1975. A good book and, for many years, the only source for a list of Scottish clockmakers. Still useful to have as some information about the makers is not contained in the more recent book by Whyte. A good copy, the dust jacket good but faded as usual. (Ref: K856 - R1)

Price: £60.00

Snell (M.): Clocks and Clockmakers of Salisbury - 600 Years of Skill and Invention
O/P. 280 pages, 235 plates, figs., 1986. An excellent book on the clocks, watches and makers of Salisbury and South Wiltshire. The book has a section on turret clocks and lots of information about each clock and watch maker. A very good copy with good dust jacket. (Ref: K1209 - D2)

Price: £50.00


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