July's Summer Madness Sale has created several yards of shelf space in the store room so we are continuing the sale - a discount of 20% off all books purchased before 31 August 2025.

We also have a good selection of books on special offer this month which you can see here. These books will also receive the 20% sale discount at the checkout.

Some of the books currently in stock:

Britten’s Old Clocks & Watches and their Makers
Frederick James Britten

O/P. A good copy of the latest edition of this well-known work which has a very good listing of London clock and watch makers. Every enthusiast should have a copy of one of the editions of this book. Very good copy with good dust jacket.

700 pages, illus., 9th edition, 1989.

£20.00 less 20% Order Here * Two copies only *

Old English Clocks - The Wetherfield Collection
Frederick James Britten

O/P. Measuring 15 x 11½ inches, this is a pictorial record of the Wetherfield collection with notes on the makers of the clocks included. A very good copy, original cloth a little worn to edges, front board a little loose, a few pages with small tears, corners a bit bumped. A very rare book.

xii, 114 pages, illustrated, 1st edition, number 255 of 320 copies, 1907.

£195.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Antiquarian Horological Society: Collectors' Pieces, Clocks and Watches
O/P. £1.00 less 20% Order Here

Allix (C.): Carriage Clocks - Their History and Development
O/P. £25.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Beney (D.R.): Beaminster Clocks & their Makers
NEW. £1.00 less 20% Order Here

Brown (H.M.): Cornish Clocks and Clock Makers
O/P. £5.00 less 20% Order Here

Cescinsky (H.) & Webster (M.R.): English Domestic Clocks (2nd edition, 1914)
O/P. £75.00 less 20% Order Here * Two copies only *

Cescinsky (H.):
The Old English Master Clockmakers and their Clocks 1670-1820
O/P. £10.00 less 20% Order Here * Three copies only *

Chapuis (A.) (Editor): L'Horlogerie une Tradition Helvétique
O/P. £15.00 less 20% Order Here

The Artificial Clock-Maker.
A Treatise of Watch and Clock-Work,...
William Derham

O/P. A complete copy of this famous work, the pages and plates now very lightly browned with age. Re-backed many years ago using very dark grey leather and the original brown leather covered boards. Leather to all edges chipped and worn, the leather somewhat marked in places. Overall a very good, and complete, example of the third edition.

Third edition, published by James Knapton, London, 1714. Title page, preface, contents list, 140 pages, 3 folding plates, 4 folding tables.

£245.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Dinsdale (N.V.): The Old Clockmakers of Yorkshire
O/P. £15.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Earnshaw (T.): Longitude. An Appeal to the Public: stating Mr Thomas Earnshaw's Claim to the Original Invention of the Improvements in his Timekeepers (facsimile reprint)
O/P. £75.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Darken (J.) (editor): Horological Masterworks - English Seventeenth-Century Clocks from Private Collections (Hardback edition)
O/P. £145.00 less 20% Order Here * Two copies only *

Goodison (N.): English Barometers 1680 - 1860
O/P. £25.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Haggar (A.L.) & Miller (L.F.): Suffolk Clocks and Clockmakers
O/P. £40.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Hughes (R.G.) & Craven (M.): Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Derbyshire
O/P. £45.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Huygens (C.): Horologium
O/P. £2.00 less 20% Order Here

Viennese Timepieces
Frederick Kaltenböck

NEW. A comprehensive description of clock and watch production in Vienna from the 17th century up to the second half of the 19th century. The book, which has excellent photographs, has chapters on watches, zappler clocks, bracket clocks, wall clocks, longcase clocks, and a listing of Viennese clock and watch makers. For collectors of true Viennese regulators this is the best book on the subject. With dust jacket and slipcase.

263 pages, 527 illustrations, 1993.

£10.00 less 20% Order Here

Loomes (B.): Brass Dial Clocks
O/P. £65.00 less 20% Order Here

Martin (C.): A Celebration of Cornish Sun Dials
O/P. £2.00 less 20% Order Here

Moore (A.J.), Rice (R.W.) & Hucker (E.):
Bilbie and The Chew Valley Clock Makers
O/P. £110.00 less 20% Order Here * Two copies only *

Moore (A.J.): The Clockmakers of Somerset 1650 - 1900
O/P. £195.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Penfold (J.B.): The Clockmakers of Cumberland
O/P. £195.00 less 20% Order Here * Two copies only *

Bedfordshire Clock & Watchmakers 1352 - 1880
Chris Pickford

O/P. 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.

252 pages, 35 plates, 2 figs., 1991.

£30.00 less 20% Order Here

Ponsford (C.N.): Devon Clocks and Clockmakers
O/P. £15.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Ponsford (C.N.): Time in Exeter
O/P. £20.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

[Sainsbury, Henry]:
Illustrated Catalogue of Cathedral, Church, Turret & Musical Clocks
NEW. £4.00 less 20% Order Here

Reid (T.): Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, Theoretical and Practical
O/P. £225.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Roberts (D.): British Skeleton Clocks
O/P. £95.00 less 20% Order Here * Two copies only *

Tardy: La Pendule Française - des origines a nos jours (3 volumes)
O/P. £195.00 less 20% Order Here * One copy only *

Stamford Clocks & Watches
Laurence Tebbutt

O/P. Copy number 378 of a limited edition of 500. A scarce and useful contribution to knowledge of regional clock & watch making and repairing. A good copy. Card covers, rear cover creased.

173 pages, 106 figures, signed by author, 1975.

£95.00 less 20% Order Here * Two copies only *

Stevens (J.C.): The Clockmaker from Claypole: Charles Gretton 1648 - 1731
O/P. £4.00 less 20% Order Here

White (I.): Watch and Clock Makers in the City of Bath
O/P. £95.00 less 20% Order Here

That's all for this month but, as always, if there are any specific books you are looking for please send us an email - jeff@formby-clocks.co.uk - 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