Two new books have just been published and a third is due later this month. See below for full details.

This month's newsletter also features several books on special offer, 3 books with fine leather bindings and other recent purchases which may be of interest to you.

New Books. Just Published:

Watches
Cecil Clutton & George Daniels

NEW. The long awaited reprint of the third and best edition of Clutton & Daniels' important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980, with a new forward by Jonathan Betts. The illustrations and technical assessment of the principal escapements are especially useful.

320 pages, over 600 illustrations, reprinted 2022.

£95.00 Order Here

Using the Engineer's Lathe in Clockmaking
Laurie Penman

NEW. A practical guide to selecting, setting up and using an engineer's lathe to make the parts necessary when making and repairing clocks. A very useful book for those who have little or no experience of using a lathe. With dust jacket.

144 pages, over 160 illustrations, 2022.

£19.99 Order Here

A General History of Horology
Turner (A.), Nye (J.) & Betts (J.) editors

NEW. The book describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. Over 30 international authors have combined to offer a world-wide survey for collectors, enthusiasts and historians; an up to date book based on current knowledge and incorporating some new and original research. With dust jacket.

776 pages, 220 colour photographs, 2022.

£150.00 less 10% More Information

Fine Leather Bindings:

Dawson (P.G.), Drover (C.B.) & Parkes (D.W.): Early English Clocks
NEW. £120.00 less 10% Order Here

Hughes (R.) & Rowe (M.): The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals
NEW. £120.00 less 10% Order Here

Symonds (R.W.): Thomas Tompion His Life and Work
NEW. £120.00 less 10% Order Here

Special Offers for May:

Kaltenböck (F.): Viennese Timepieces
NEW. £10.00 Order Here

Marshall (T.): Buckinghamshire Clock & Watchmakers
NEW. £30.00 Order Here

Ovens (R.) & Sleath (S.): Time in Rutland - a History and Gazeteer of the Bells, Scratch Dials, Sundials and Clocks of Rutland
NEW. £10.00 Order Here

Woodford (N. & D.): The Thristle Clockmakers of Somerset 1765 - 1899 including James Cole of Stowey, John Millard of Stogursey and the Dial Makers Pyke of Bridgewater and Cox of Taunton
NEW. £10.00 Order Here

New Books:

Barographs
Philip R. Collins

NEW. The author traces the development of the barograph from the earliest recording devices through their heyday in the Victorian period to the instrument we know today. This well researched book will help readers to understand and appreciate the wide range of barographs still available and assist in dating them. This new edition is 28 pages longer than the long out of print first edition and has a lot more information about maintenance and repair as well as bellows, nibs, charts and ink. Paperback.

174 pages, illustrated, second edition, 2021.

£12.95 Order Here

Cuss (T.P. Camerer): The English Watch 1585 - 1970
NEW. £95.00 Order Here

Glanville (J.) & Wolmuth (W.M.): Clockmaking in England & Wales in the Twentieth Century - The Industrialized Manufacture of Domestic Mechanical Clocks
NEW. £50.00 Order Here

Thorpe (N.M.): The French Marble Clock
NEW. £40.00 Order Here

Wild (J.M.): Wheel and Pinion Cutting in Horology - a Historical and Practical Guide
NEW. £29.95 Order Here

Wiles (M.W.): Maintaining and Repairing Mechanical Watches - A Practical Guide
NEW. £25.00 Order Here

Roberts (D.): English Precision Pendulum Clocks
NEW. £90.99 Order Here

Out of Print Books:

A Rudimentary Treatise on Clock & Watchmaking: with a chapter on Church Clocks
Edmund Beckett Denison

O/P. Edmund Beckett Denison, later Sir Edmund Beckett, then Lord Grimthorpe, was one of the 19th century's great horological characters. The book contains lots of information on clocks, watches and chronometers. A very good copy, light foxing to title and index pages, in a fine modern binding, the leather spine with gilt lettering, the buckram boards with the original paper label laid down on the front.

Frontis-piece, 279 pages, illustrated, 1st edition, 1850.

£125.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Evans (J.): Thomas Tompion at the Dial and Three Crowns
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Gatto (M.): The Tavern Clock
O/P. £40.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Hambly (M.): Drawing Instruments 1580 - 1980
O/P. £60.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Isnardi (A.):
The Master of Omega - Speedmaster - Flightmaster - Speedsonic
O/P. £395.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Kemp (R.): The Fusee Lever Watch
O/P. £55.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Moore (A.J.), Rice (R.W.) & Hucker (E.):
Bilbie and The Chew Valley Clock Makers
O/P. £175.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *

Nardin (R.): Les Chronomètres de Marine Ulysse Nardin
O/P. £65.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, Theoretical and Practical
Thomas Reid

O/P. Frontispiece, xvi, 466 pages, 19 folding plates, 7th edition, 1859. The text and plates are bound in separate matching volumes, the frontispiece bound in with the plates. A celebrated work by Thomas Reid, the famous Edinburgh clock and watch maker. The book is a comprehensive treatise on clocks, watches and chronometers with information on orreries and turret clocks. Text volume: A very good copy with a little foxing to a few pages, end papers worn and with a few tears, contemporary half Morocco, binding tight, with gilt lettering and gilt tooling to the spine; the leather now a little marked and worn to corners, the paper covered boards now a little rubbed. Plate volume: Most plates with light foxing, a few with heavier foxing, 3 plates splitting along the fold line (one with old repair); the binding and boards in same condition as the text volume.

Frontispiece, xvi, 466 pages, 19 folding plates, 7th edition, 1859.

£150.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Robinson (R.W.) & Burt (H.B.): The Willard House and Clock Museum and The Willard Family Clockmakers
O/P. £50.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Saunier (C.): The Watchmakers' Handbook (first edition, 1882)
O/P. £70.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Saunier (C.): Treatise on Modern Horology in Theory & Practice (first edition, 1880)
O/P. £165.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Strode (T.): A New and Easie Method to the Art of Dyalling (facsimile reprint)
O/P. £25.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Some Applications of the "Synchronome" System of Electric Time Service with Opinions Thereon
Synchronome Syndicate Ltd

O/P. A marketing brochure for the Synchronome System, with examples of its use in banks, office, schools, hotels and private houses. A very good copy of a very rare booklet, the only one I have ever seen.

19 pages, illustrated, circa 1900.

£95.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Tardy: La Pendule Française - des origines a nos jours (3 volumes)
O/P. £250.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Treffry (T.) editor: Derek Pratt FBHI Watchmaker 1938 - 2009
O/P. £95.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Vincent (C.) & Leopold (J.H.): European Clocks and Watches in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
O/P. £35.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Wilkinson (T.J.): The Escapement and Train of American Watches
O/P. £65.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Woodward (P.): My Own Right Time - An Exploration of Clockwork Design
O/P. £60.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Summer is almost here (in the Northern Hemisphere at least) so it's sunny days and light evenings - relax and chill in the garden, or on the beach, with a good book!

As always, if there are any books you are looking for please let us know by email and we will do our best to find them for you.

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