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THE CAMPANOLOGY

(BELLS & BELL-RINGING)

COLLECTION

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A truly unique and wonderful collection of 55 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on DVD data disc covering all aspects of CAMPANOLOGY.

Read about the history of bells, their origins and uses throughout the centuries. Learn about the famous bell founders and how the bells were made. Study the church bells that have hung for 100’s of years in towers across Britain and further afield – their inscriptions, founders and traditions. Also included in this fascinating collection are vintage works on the management of belfries, bell-ringing and carillons. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in church bells and the age-old art of bell-ringing. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material for anyone with an interest in bells and their history!

This superb compilation of 55 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages. All of the books are written in English with an additional work in Spanish.

An unusual and comprehensive collection - compiled by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A book about bells by G. S. Tyack (1898)

A history of bells and description of their manufacture, as practised at the bell foundry, Whitechapel by unknown author (1872)

A paper on bells and modern improvements for chiming and carillons by G. Lund (1875)

An account of church bells, with some notices of Wiltshire bells and bellfounders. Containing a copious list of founders, a comparative scale of tenor bells, and inscriptions by W. C. Lukis (1857)

Bell catalogue, A.D. 1894 by John Taylor & Co. (1894)

Bell foundry, Whitechapel, London E. by Mears & Stainbank (1885)

Bell-founders in Lancashire and Cheshire and the adjacent counties, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by J. P. Earwaker (1820)

Bells - their history, legends, making, and uses by S. N. Coleman (1923)

Carillon music and singing towers of the Old world and the New by W. G. Rice (1914)

Carillons of Belgium and Holland; tower music in the Low Countries by W. G. Rice (1914)

Change-ringing disentangled - with hints on the direction of belfries, on the management of bells by W. Wigram (1880)

Church bells - their uses, their romance, and their history - reprinted from The Sheffield Daily Telegraph (1903)

Church bells and ringing by W. T. Maunsell (1861)

Church bells by H. B. Walters (1908)

Church bells of England by H. B. Walters (1912)

Church, academy, tower clock, factory, chime, courthouse, fire-alarm & other bells by C. H. Meneely (1878)

Church, clock, hemispherical, and other description of bells. Whitechapel bell foundry by Mears & Stainbank (1919)

Early bells of Paul Revere by A. H. Nichols (1904)

Elements of campanalogia, or, An essay on the art of ringing by H. Hubbard (1868)

First steps to bell ringing; an introduction to the exercise of bell ringing in rounds and changes upon church bells by S. B. Goslin (1881)

Handbell ringing by C. W. Fletcher (1888)

Jones & Company, bell founders, and proprietors of the old established Troy Bell Foundry - manufacturers of church bells, chimes and peals of bells ... and other bells kept constantly on hand (1871)

Las campanas, su historia, su bendición, su uso litúrgico, dominio de propriedad sobre ellas, influencia de su toque durante las tempestades by J. B. Ferreres (1910)

Moulton church and its bell - with a complete summary of the bells in the several parishes of Northamptonshire; also, a comprehensive bibliography on bells by S. J. Madge (1895)

Poetry of the bells by S. Batchelder (1858)

Practical remarks on belfries and ringers by H. T. Ellacombe (1878)

Rite of the blessing of a bell, or of several bells according to the Roman Pontifical with additions to the rubrics by J. Lynch (1912)

Standard methods in the art of change ringing by J. W. Snowdon (1908)

Surrey bells and London bell founders - a contribution to the comparative study of bell inscriptions by J. Stahlschmidt (1884)

The bell - its origin, history, and uses by A. Gatty (1848)

The bells and crosses of the Mission inn the Ford paintings of the California missions (1912)

The bells of England by J. J. Raven (1906)

The bells of Harvard College by A. H. Nichols (1911)

The bells of Lynn by C. Woodbury (1915)

The church and other bells of Kincardineshire by F. C. Eeles (1897)

The church bells of Bedfordshire - their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with a brief history of church bells in that county by T. North (1883)

The church bells of Buckinghamshire - their inscriptions, founders, uses and traditions, etc. by A. H. Cocks (1897)

The church bells of Cambridgeshire; a chronicle of the principal companalogical events that have occurred within the county. To which is appended a list of the inscriptions on the bells by J. J. Raven (1869)

The church bells of Essex - their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and uses by C. Deedes (1909)

The church bells of Hertfordshire; their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses by T. North (1886)

The church bells of Holderness by G. R. Park (1898)

The church bells of Huntingdonshire - their inscriptions, founders, uses, traditions, etc. by T. Owen (1899)

The church bells of Kent - their inscriptions, founders, uses, and traditions by J. Stahlschmidt (1887)

The church bells of Leicestershire - their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with chapters on bells and the Leicester bell founders by T. North (1876)

The church bells of Norfolk - where, when, and by whom they were made, with the inscriptions on all the bells in the county by J. L'Estrange (1874)

The church bells of Northamptonshire - their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with chapters on bells and the Northants bell founders by T. North (1878)

The church bells of Rutland - their inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses; with chapters on bells and bell founders by T. North (1880)

The church bells of Somerset, to which is added a budget of bell matters of general interest by H. T. Ellacombe (1881)

The church bells of Suffolk; a chronicle in nine chapters, with a complete list of the inscriptions on the bells, and historical notes by J. J. Raven (1890)

The church bells of the county and city of Lincoln - their founders, inscriptions, traditions, and peculiar uses, with a brief history of church bells in Lincolnshire by T. North (1882)

The church bells of Warwickshire; their founders, inscriptions, traditions and uses by H. T. Tilley (1910)

The McShane bell foundry - Henry McShane Manufacturing Co. proprietors, Baltimore, MD. U.S.A. (1900)

The Washington peace carillon by J. M. Shull (1919)

Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by G. W. Edwards (1916)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in the study of bells, their history and inscriptions as well as the art of bell-ringing – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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All of the files are hi-resolution scans presented in pdf format, easy to read on your computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any modern Kindle / ebook reader that can read pdf files. All files can be printed or transferred between devices.

For some devices you may need to convert the pdf files. A free program called Calibre can be used to do this and can be included on the DVD if requested.

Please note that this is a data DVD disc that will contain all of the books, documents and material listed in this auction. It will work in a laptop or computer (including MAC) but will NOT work on a normal DVD player, X-Box or audio CD player.

* MAIN PHOTO IS FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY – other photos are example pages from the books included on the disc *

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