We are now on Summer Time / Daylight Savings Time, in the northern hemisphere at least, so enjoy the lighter nights and the spring flowers.

Our special offers on small books, booklets and pamphlets continues, all priced at £5.00 or less, with many at just £1.00. You can check out the special offers here.

A few of the books currently in stock:

The Musical Box - A Guide for Collectors Including a Guide to Values
Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume

NEW. This is the most recent and best of Ord-Hume's books on musical boxes and is the definitive history of mechanical music, its instruments and their development and technology. The book illustrates the various types of mechanism and includes patents, makers' trade marks and tune sheets. With dust jacket.

343 pages, 330 plates, 78 figs, 1995.

Now reduced to £49.50 Order Here * One copy only *

Innovation & Collaboration
The Early Development of the Pendulum Clock in London
Richard Garnier & Leo Hollis

NEW. This book explores the innovation surrounding the development of the early pendulum clock in London and the lines of collaboration that made it happen. There are chapters on 17th Century clockmaking in London, architectural clock cases, the Fromanteel Family and Cornelius Drebbel, a previously unrecognised influence on the Fromanteels; followed by excellent full colour photographs and descriptions of each of 119 clocks dating from circa 1500 to circa 1725. A beautifully produced, deluxe half-leather bound, signed and numbered, edition has a red leather spine and corners with red cloth covered boards, the spine with gilt lettering and gilt lines, all page edges gilt.

412 pages, illustrated, deluxe edition limited to 125 copies, signed by authors, 2018.

£470.00 less 10 % Order Here

Albright (F.P.): Johann Ludwig Eberhardt and his Salem Clocks
NEW. £15.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Barter (A.): The Watch - A Twentieth-Century Style History
NEW. £45.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Brown (P.): The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture & Clocks
NEW. Reduced to £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Dégallier (E.): Tables des Ressorts-Moteurs
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Fabian (L.L.): Could it have been Wren?
O/P. £5.00 Order Here

Katra (J.R.): Clockmakers & Clockmaking in Southern Maine 1770 - 1870
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Hood (G): Modern Methods in Horology
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * one copy only *

Electric Clocks
Frank Hope-Jones

O/P. This is by far the rarest of Hope-Jones's publications and has never been reprinted. The book describes the various types of electric clock mechanism starting with Alexander Bain and describing developments up to the time the book was published. A very good copy, presentation inscription signed by author on front endpaper, poor dust jacket.

261 pages, 127 figures, signed by author, [ 1931 ].

£70.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Hering (D.W.): The Lure of the Clock
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Seth Thomas Clocks: Seth Thomas Clocks for 1939
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Reverchon (L.): Frottement et Graissage - Préparation scientifique des Huiles d'Horlogerie (Watch Oils)
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Smith (B.): The Synchronome Company
NEW. £10.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Chapuis (A.) & Jaquet (E.):
The History of the Self-Winding Watch 1770 - 1931
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Norgate (J.), Norgate (M.) & Hudson (F.):
Dunfermline Clockmakers up to 1900
O/P. £45.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Odmark (A.L.): Patents for Inventions Abridgements of Specifications Class 139 Watches, Clocks and Other Timepieces 1901 - 1930 (Volume 2 only)
O/P. £35.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Lancashire Watch Company - History and Watches
John G. Platt

NEW. 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.

528 pages, about 1000 illustrations, 2016.

£45.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Hughes (P.): French Eighteenth-Century Clocks and Barometers in the Wallace Collection
O/P. £12.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Veldhoven (L. van):
Mayet Morbier Comtoise - Birth and Life of a Legendary Clock
O/P. £65.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Bulova: Bulova Accutron - Service Manual Series 230
O/P. £9.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Grimthorpe (Lord):
A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells (8th edition, 1903)
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Pickford (C.): Turret Clocks: Lists of clocks from makers' catalogues and publicity materials
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Rose (R.E.): Looking After your Antique Clock
O/P. £4.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Early Watch Case Makers of England 1631 - 1720
Philip T. Priestley

NEW. A carefully researched publication with detailed information on over 200 watch case makers, 11 working in Liverpool the remainder in London. The book also discusses the factors affecting trade during the period, including the Great Fire of London. An essential book for researchers. Hardback.

89 pages, illus., 2000.

£50.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

[Sotheby's]: The Percy Webster Collection
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Shenton (A.): Pocket Watches of the 19th & 20th Century
O/P. £55.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Shenton (A.) & Shenton (R.):
Collectable Clocks 1840 - 1940 Reference and Price Guide (3rd edition)
O/P. £40.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Snow (G.): Reference Book of Ithaca Calendar Clocks
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

[Société Jersiaise]: Jersey Names on Long-Case Clocks
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Wright (T.D.): Technical Horology (1926)
O/P. £12.00 Order Here * One copy only *

[Young & Co.]: Catalogue of Watches (USA, 1911)
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Stow on the Wold
Barnaby Smith

NEW. A well researched new book, by Barnaby Smith, who has collected information about the Stow (Gloucestershire) clockmakers (especially the Archer family) for well over 30 years. Walter Archer was working in Stow by 1699 and his descendants continued in Stow until 1824. Other Stow makers worked from 1719 up to about 1939, the practitioners from the mid 19th century onwards being retailers/repairers not 'makers'. The book includes an appendix with details of (6 miles away) Moreton in Marsh clockmakers from the 1690's to the early 20th century.

184 pages, 95 illustrations, 2024.

£25.00 Order Here

Green (F.H.): Old English Clocks (Limited to 300 copies, 1931)
O/P. £195.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *

Holly (F.M.): For Generations to Come - the Life Story of Elias Ingraham
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

That's all for this month, so until next time, enjoy your clocks and watches and reading the books about them.

With best wishes, Jeff & Ros Formby

Jeffrey Formby Antiques
Specialist in Horological Books & English Clocks
www.formby-clocks.co.uk
Phone UK: (0) 1608 650558