Bell Reference Books
(The following books have been used by ABA members for bell research. The American Bell Association does not officially endorse the publications listed.)
NEW “Bells” Music, Art, Culture, and Politics from Around the World by Jaan Whitehead
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, Bells, Now and Long Ago, (no publisher named in book), 1995
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, Bell Tidings, (no copyright, publisher, or date named in book)
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, Bell Treasures, (no copyright, publisher, or date named in book)
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, Legendary Bells, (no copyright, publisher, or date named in book)
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, More Bell Lore, (no copyright, publisher, or date named in book)
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, The Lure of Bells, (no copyright, publisher, or date named in book)
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, The World of Bells, Wallace-Homestead Book Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1971
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, World of Bells No. 2, Wallace-Homestead Book Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1974
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, World of Bells No. 3, Wallace-Homestead Book Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1977
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, World of Bells No. 4, (no copyright, publisher, or date named in book)
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, World of Bells No. 5, (no copyright, publisher, or date named in book)
Anthony, Dorothy Malone, World of Collectible Bells, (no copyright, publisher, or date named in book)
Bailey, Bernadine, Bells, Bells, Bells, Dodd, Mead & Company, NY, 1978
Baker, Donna S., Collectible Bells, Treasures of Sight and Sound, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 1998
Baker, Donna S., More Collectible Bells, Classic to Contemporary, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 1999
Banister, Judith, English Silver Hall-Marks: Including the Marks of Origin on Scottish & Irish Silver Plate, Gold, Platinum & Sheffield Plate: With 500 of the More Important Makers Marks from 1697-1900 (Dealer Guides), Wallace Homestead Publishers, 1975
Batchelder, Samuel, Poetry of the Bells, Riverside Press, 1858 (Note: There have been several printings of this book by different publishing companies.)
Boland, Ring in the Jubilee: The Epic of America’s Liberty Bell, Michael Charles 1973, The Chatham Press, Inc., Riverside, CT, 2010
Bicker, Manfred, Collecting Push Bells, Pro Business Publications Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012
Bicker, Manfred, Collecting Table Bells, Pro Business Publications Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013
Bicker, Manfred, P. Tereszczuk: Sculptor of Vienna Bronzes, Pro Business Publications Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012
Bigelow, Arthur Lynds, The Acoustically Balanced Carillon, Department of Graphics, School of Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1961
British Assay Offices, Hallmarks on Gold, Silver and Platinum, Belmar Editions Ltd, 1980
Butler, William, Musical Handbells: A Comprehensive History of the Bells and their Founders, Phillimore & Co. Ltd, England, 2000
Camp, John, Bell Ringing: Chimes-Carillons-Handbells: the World of the Bell and the Ringer, A. S. Barnes and Company, New York. 1974
Camp, John, Discovering Bells and Bellringing, Shire Publications Ltd., Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, UK
Camp, John, In Praise of Bells: The Folklore and Traditions of British Bells, Robert Hale, London, 1988
Chinese Bell Museum, Ancient Bells, Quan Jinyun, Series of the Gem of Beijing Cultural Relics, Chinese Bell Museum, Beijing, China, 1999
Coe, Debbie and Randy, Fenton Art Glass, Colors and Hand-Decorated Patterns, 1939-1980, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 2007
Coleman, Satis N., Bells, Their History, Legends, Making, and Uses, Rand McNally & Company, Rand McNally & Company, Chicago and NY, 1928
Coleman, Satis N., The Book of Bells, The John Day Company, NY, 1938
Dean, Marilyn Seely, More Than Just a Bell – A Musical Instrument, (no publisher given, printed in the United States of America), 1982
Fitzhugh, Bessie Lee, Bells Over Texas, Texas Western Press, El Paso, TX, 1955
Fletcher, Helen Jill, The First Book of Bells, Franklin Watts Inc., NY, NY, 1959
Goeppinger, Neil, Large Bells of America: History of Church Bells, Fire Bells, School Bells, Dinner Bells and Their Foundries, Neil W. Goeppinger, publisher, Suncoast Digital Press, Inc., 2016
Hatch, Eric, and Sloan, Eric, The Little Book of Bells, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, NY, 1964
Ingram, Tom Bells in England, David & Charles, London. 1954
Irtz, Hilma R., Figural Nodders, Collector Books, A Division of Schroeder Publishing Co., Inc., Schroeder Publishing Co., Inc., Paducah, KY, 1997
Keating, John D. Bells in Australia, Melbourne University Press. Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 1979
Keldermans, Karel, Carillon: The evolution of a concert instrument in North America, Springfield Park District, Springfield, IL, 1996
Keldermans, Karel, Fenton Art Glass, A Centennial of Glass Making 1907-2007, Collector Books, a Division of Schroeder Publishing Co., Inc., Paducah, KY, 2005
Kurillo, Max and Tuttle, Erline, A Guide to the Historic Bells of Mrs. A.S.C. Forbes: With Additional Information on the California Bell Company, self-published, 2004
Kramer, Justin, Cast in America – The Historically Accurate, Exciting Story of the Liberty Bell, Justin Karmer Incorporated, Los Angeles, California, Printed by Delta Lithograph Company, Van Nuys, CA
Kurillo, Max and Tuttle, Erline, California’s El Camino Real and Its Historic Bells, Sunbelt Publications, Inc., San Diego, CA, 2000
Kurillo, Max and Tuttle, Erline, The Mission Bells That Never Rang, Borden Publishing Co., Los Angeles, CA, 1995
Lange, Anselm, Europäische Tischglocken, Minner-Verlag, Kornwestheim, Germany, 1981
Lehr, Andre, The Art of the Carillon in the Low Countries, Lannoo Publishers, Lannoo, Belgium, 1991
LeMaster, Janet, Nodders, Bobbers, Swingers and Springers
McDonald, Peter Big Ben: The Bell, the Clock and the Tower, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England, 2004
Marcovitz, Hal, The Liberty Bell, Mason Crest Publishers, Philadelphia. Printed and bound in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 2003
McKay, Chris Big Ben: The Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 2010
Meyer A. C., Travel Search for Bells, Lightner Publishing Co., Printed in U.S.A, 1944
Miller, Natalie, The Story of The Liberty Bell, Childrens Press, Chicago, 1965
Morris, Ernest, Bells of All Nations, Robert Hale, Ltd, London, England, 1951
Morris, Ernest, Tintinnabula, Ebenezer Baylis and Son, Limited, The Trinity Press, Worcester and London, 1959
Morrison, Gouverneur, Editor, Bells: Their History and Romance, (collected stories and poems), J. R. Rowny Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1932
Nash, Gary B. The Liberty Bell, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2010
Neilson, Robyna, Robyna Neilson Ketchum Collection of Bells, Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven, CT, 1975
Parry, Scott B., The Story of Handbells: Then History and Art of Handbell Ringing, Whittemore Associates, Boston, MA, 1957
Price, Percival, Bells & Man, Oxford University Press, Oxford, NY, Toronto, Melbourne, 1983
Price, Percival, Campanology, Europe, 1945-1947: A report on the condition of carillons on the continent of Europe as a result of the recent war, on the sequestration… The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1948
Rice, William Gorham, Carillons of Belgium and Holland, Tower Music in the Low Countries, John Lane Company, NY, 1914
Rombouts, Luc, Singing Bronze: A History of Carillon Music, Leuven University Press, Leuven, Belgium, 2014
Spear, Jr., Nathaniel, A Treasury of Archaeological Bells, Chanticleer Press, Inc., NY, 1978
Speare, Eva A., Historic Bells in New Hampshire, Currier Printing Company, Littleton, NH, 1944
Springer, Lois E., Chimes: A Collection of Bell Poems, John F. Cuneo Company, Chicago, IL, 1949
Springer, L. Elsinore, That Vanishing Sound, by E. Elsinore Springer, Crown Publishers, Inc., NY, 1976
Springer, L. Elsinore, The Collector’s Book of Bells, Crown Publishers, Inc., NY, 1972
Sloane, Eric, The Sound of Bells, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1966
Taber, Mary J. Bells: An Anthology, The Gorham Press, Boston, MA, 1912
Trinidad, Jr., A. A., American Glass Bells, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 2010
Trinidad, Jr., A. A., Collectible Glass Bells of the World 2003 by A. A. Trinidad Jr., Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 2003
Trinidad, Jr., A. A., Glass Bells, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 2001
Trinidad, Jr., A. A., Glass Bells from Around the World, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA, 2010
Tufts, Nancy Poore, The Art of Handbell Ringing, Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN, 1961
Unknown, The Bells and Crosses of the Mission Inn, Riverside, California, a guide booklet to the Frank A. Miller Mission Inn Collection of 271 bells and crosses housed at the Mission Inn, undated
Von Falkenhausen, Lothar, Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1993
Walsh, Marie T., The Mission Bells of California, Harr Wagner Publishing Company, San Francisco, CA, 1934
Walters, H.B., The Arts of the Church Bells, A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., London, England, 1908
Warren, Dorothy Moody, Anthology of Bells, The Bell Collector’s Treasury of Verses, Exposition Press, Hicksville, NY, 1979
Warren, Dorothy Moody, Bells Tell Stories, Associated Printers Inc., Pennsville, NJ, 1988
Wede, Karl, The Ship’s Bell. Its History and Romance, South Street Seaport Museum, NY, 1972
Westcott, Wendell, Bells and Their Music, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1970
Whitmyer, Margaret & Kenn, Fenton Art Glass Patterns, 1939-1980, Second Edition, Collector Books, a Division of Schroeder Publishing Co., Inc., Paducah, KY, 2004
Williams, Edward V., The Bells of Russia: History and Technology, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1985
Wilson, Wilfrid G., Change Ringing: The Art and Science of Change Ringing on Church and Hand Bells, Faber and Faber, London, 1965
Wyler, Seymour B. The Book of Old Silver, English, American, Foreign, Skyhorse Publishing, 2013
Yolen, Jane, Ring Out!, a Book of Bells, A Clarion Book, The Seabury Press, NY, 1974