The holiday season is in full swing in Europe and North America, but with many people staying at home or within their own country because of the pandemic. Wherever you are we have lots of books for your summer horological reading.

Listed below are some new and out of print titles which may be of interest.

New Books:

The Pendulum - A Case Study in Physics
Baker (G.L.) & Blackburn (J.A.)

NEW. A unique and comprehensive book containing all the facts about pendulums from a scientific viewpoint but also with an historical and cultural context. The book analyses simple pendulums, compound pendulums, torsion pendulums and the Foucault pendulum to name a few. The use of the pendulum by Cavendish to determine the density of the earth in 1798 and the use of a torsion pendulum by Coulomb when studying electrostatics in 1784 are both documented. A detailed technical study, which includes a chapter on 'The Pendulum Clock', but also has chapters on 'The Chaotic Pendulum' and the 'Quantum Pendulum' which will blow the mind!

288 pages, text figures, 2009. The paperback edition.

£36.99 Order Here

The Watch - A Twentieth-Century Style History
Alexander Barter

NEW. Decade by decade, this new book charts the era's stylistic and design highlights and examines the development of specific genres of watches. The early rise of the wristwatch led to a golden age of watch production which was followed by the electronic watch and latterly the renaissance of the mechanical watch again. The major technological and design advances are all included.

336 pages, 400 colour illustrations, 2019.

£45.00 Order Here

Berner (G.-A.): Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology / Dictionnaire Professionnel Illustré de L'Horlogerie I & II
NEW. £220.00 less 10% Order Here

Bujard (J.) & Tissot (L.) editors: The Territory of Neuchâtel and its Horological Heritage
NEW. £160.00 less 10% Order Here

Cologni (F.): Vacheron Constantin - Artists of Time
NEW. £80.00 Order Here

Dzik (W.H.): Engraving on English Table Clocks: Art on a Canvas of Brass, 1660-1800
NEW. £75.00 Order Here

Fléchon (D.) & Gardinetti (G.): Horology, a Child of Astronomy / L'Horlogerie, Fille de L'Astronomie
NEW. £29.99 Order Here

The Tavern Clock
Martin Gatto

NEW. An important book on tavern clocks concentrating on the cases and their decoration as well as the historical context. There are interesting chapters on lacquer work, the origins of the prints often found on lacquered tavern clock doors, and buying & restoring tavern clocks. The second half of the book is a comprehensive archive describing over 300 tavern clocks known to the author. With dust jacket.

232 pages, 65 colour illustrations, a limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies, 2010.

£50.00 Order Here

Hesketh (D.): Penny-In-the-Slot Automata and the Working Model
NEW. £95.00 Order Here

Jendritzki (H.): The Watch Repairer's Manual
NEW. £37.00 Order Here

Marshall (T.): Buckinghamshire Clock & Watchmakers
NEW. £48.00 Order Here

McKay (C.) editor: The Great Salisbury Clock Trial
NEW. £10.00 Order Here

Perkins (A.B.): The Modern Watchmakers Lathe and How To Use It
NEW. £82.50 Order Here

Reid (C.L.): North Country Clockmakers of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries
NEW. £28.50 Order Here

Reynolds (C.F.): A Conspectus of Clocks and Time Related Products Produced by Gent and Co. Leicester - 100 Years of Electrical Horology
NEW. £24.50 Order Here

The Longcase Clock Reference Book
John Robey

NEW. An important reference book detailing all aspects of the British longcase clock from the late 17th century to the Victorian era. The first volume studies the clock trade, the making of clocks and all aspects of going, striking and chiming trains, illustrating many unusual variations. The second volume discusses the stylistic development of brass and painted dials made in London and the provinces, as well as clock cases, clocks made for special purposes, and those with wooden movements. American tall-case clocks are included in the book and compared and contrasted with their British counterparts. With dust jackets.

928 pages, over 2,500 illustrations, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 2013

£120.00 less 10% Order Here

Saff (D.): From Celestial to Terrestrial Timekeeping - Clockmaking in the Bond Family
NEW. £52.50 Order Here

[Smiths] compiled by Smith (B.): Smiths Domestic Clocks
NEW. £20.00 Order Here

Sumira (S.): The Art and History of Globes
NEW. £21.00 Order Here

Out of Print Books:

Early Lancashire Horological Tools and their Makers
Ted R. Crom

O/P. The last of Ted Crom's books on horological tools containing a wealth of information not available elsewhere. The makers include Wyke & Green, Daniel Mather, the Jones family, Thurston Lassell, the Leyland family, William Whitmore and several more. Essential reading. Unused copy (old stock) recently released by publisher, in fine condition.

275 pages, 282 figs., 1994.

£195.00 less 10% Order Here

Bracegirdle (B.) & McCormick (J.B.): The Microscopic Photographs of J. B. Dancer
O/P. £30.00 Order Here

Chamberlain (P.M.): It's About Time (1st edition, 1941)
O/P. £95.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Chevenard (P.): Nouveaux Alliages du Type Elinvar pour Spiraux de Chronomètres (1938)
O/P. £50.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Daly (A.): Ormskirk Clockmakers & Watchmakers
O/P. £110.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Darwin (J.): The Triumphs of Big Ben
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Derham (W.): The Artificial Clock-Maker. A Treatise of Watch and Clock-Work, ... (2nd edition, 1700)
O/P. £750.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Ende (H. van den) et al: Huygens' Legacy - The Golden Age of the Pendulum Clock (hardback edition)
O/P. £195.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *

The Golden Age of English Horology - Masterpieces from the Tom Scott Collection
Richard Garnier & Jonathan Carter (J.)

O/P. An important book, superbly illustrated (in colour), about an important collection of fine clocks, with a wealth of information not available elsewhere. The collection included three grande sonnerie clocks by Thomas Tompion, and a previously undocumented year going clock by the same maker. The book has important chapters on George of Denmark, Tompion's most ambitious patron; a checklist of George Graham's clocks and watches; an excellent chapter on Daniel Quare (especially his numbered pillar barometers); and a good section on the Knibb family. A fine copy beautifully bound in half-leather with marbled boards.

487 pages, illustrated, number 17 of a special leather bound edition of 85 copies, signed by authors, 2015.

£550.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Gibbs (J.W.): The Life and Death of the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Haselton (P.H.): The Watchman's Clock in America - A Brief History
O/P. £40.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Haspels (J.J.L.): Musical Automata - Catalogue of the automatic musical instruments in the National Museum 'From Musical Clock to Street Organ'
O/P. £85.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Mayson (G.T.): Mechanical Singing-Bird Tabatières
O/P. £395.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

McDermott (K.): Timex - A Company and its Community 1854 - 1998
O/P. £50.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Sawyer (F.W.): The Analemmatic Sundial Source Book
O/P. £175.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Schoppig (R.): L'Horloge Française A Poids 1ere partie - Sa période artisanale du XVIe siècle au début du XiX siècle
O/P. £235.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Stevens (J.): Benjamin Gray 1676 - 1764 An Esteemed but Little-Known London Clockmaker
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Please also check out our special offers page to see if there is anything of interest to you. If there are any books you are looking for that we do not have in stock please let us know and we will try and 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