Recommended Books

Bibliography - (Click here for PDF of Bibliography)

Selection of Books about Antique Clocks

• Abeler, Jürgen. 2010. Meister der Uhrmacherkunst: über 20000 Uhrmacher aus dem deutschen Sprachgebiet mit Lebens- oder Wirkungsdaten und einem Verzeichnis ihrer dem Autor Werke. Wuppertal: Jürgen Abeler
• Allix, Charles, and Peter Bonnert. 1981. Carriage clocks: their history & development. [Woodbridge]: Antique collectors' club.
• Augarde, Jean-Dominique. 1996. Les ouvriers du temps: la pendule à Paris de Louis XIV à Napoléon Ier. [Genève]: Antiquorum.
• Bailey, Chris H. 1975. Two hundred years of American clocks & [and] watches. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
• Barder, Richard Charles Remilly. 2001. The Georgian bracket clock, 1714-1830. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Eng: Antique Collectors’ Club.
• Britten, F.J., and Richard Good. 1989. Britten's watch & clock maker's handbook: dictionary and guide. London: Bloomsbury Books.
• Burrows, G. Edmond. 1973. Canadian clocks and clockmakers. Oshawa, Ont: G. Edmond Burrows.
• Carlisle, Lilian Baker. 1970. Vermont clock and watchmakers, silversmiths, and jewelers, 1778-1878. Burlington, Vt: [Distributed by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vt.]
• Chenakal, Valentin L., and W. F. Ryan. 1972. Watchmakers and clockmakers in Russia, 1400-1850. [London] (28 Welbeck St., W17 7PG): Antiquarian Horological Society.
• Dawson, Percy G., C. B. Drover, and D. W. Parkes. 2003. Early English clocks: a discussion of domestic clocks up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club.
• DeCarle, Donald. 1984. Watch & Clock Encyclopedia. New York: Bonanza Books.
• Distin, William H. 1976. The American clock: a comprehensive pictorial survey, 1723-1900. Dutton.
• Fennimore, Donald L., Frank L. Hohmann, and Dennis Carr. 2018. Claggett: Newport's illustrious clockmakers.
• Foley, Paul J. 2002. Willard's patent time pieces: a history of the weight-driven banjo clock, 1800-1900. Norwell, MA: Roxbury Village Pub.
• Heuer, Peter, and Klaus Maurice. 1988. European pendulum clocks: decorative instruments of measuring time. West Chester, Pa: Schiffer Pub.
• Hohmann, Frank L., Kirtland H. Crump, Donald L. Fennimore, Morrison H. Heckscher, Martha H. Willoughby, and David F. Wood. 2009. Timeless: masterpiece American brass dial clocks. New York: Hohmann Holdings LLC.
• Hoopes, Penrose R. 1975. Connecticut clockmakers of the eighteenth century. Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle Co. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1863922.html.
• Kjellberg, Pierre. 2005. Encyclopédie de pendule française: du Moyen Age au XXe siècle. Paris: Ed. de l'Amateur.
• Langdon, John E. 1976. Clock & watchmakers and allied workers in Canada 1700 to 1900. Toronto, Canada: Anson-Cartwright.
• Loomes, Brian, and Granville H. Baillie. 2006. Watchmakers and clockmakers of the world: complete 21st century edition; including makers of scientific instruments, sundials and barometers. London: N.A.G. Press.
• Loomes, Brian. 1994. Painted dial clocks: [1770 - 1870]. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club.
• Loomes, Brian. 1998. Brass dial clocks. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club.
• Ly, Tran Duy. 1994. Longcase clocks and standing regulators. Part 1: Machine made clocks. Fairfax, Va: Arlington Book Co.
• Ly, Tran Duy. 1996. Seth Thomas clocks & movements. Fairfax, Va: Arlington Book Co.
• Maitzner, Francis, Jean Moreau, and Lawrence Alan Seymour. 1991. Comtoise clocks, the Morbier, the Morez: history, description, special features, restoration, repair. Dreux (59 rue Paris, 28100): J. Moreau.
• Mallory, Steven R. 2011. Clock & watch companies, 1700s-2000s: histories, trademarks and trade names. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing.
• Maurice, Klaus. 1976. Die deutsche Räderuhr. 2 vols. Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck.
• Miller, Justin J. 2012. Rare & unusual Black Forest clocks. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub.
• Mody, N.H.N. 1977. Japanese clocks. Rutland, Vt. [etc.]: Charles E. Tuttle.
• Morpurgo, Enrico. 1950. Dizionario degli Orologiai Italiani, 1300-1880. Rome: Edizioni "La Clessidra."
• Morris, Philip E. 2011. American wooden movement tall clocks, 1712-1835. Hoover, Alabama: Heritage Park Publishing.
• Niehüser, Elke, and Clemens von Halem. 1999. French bronze clocks, 1700-1830: a study of the figural images. Atglen (Pa.): Schiffer Publ.
• Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G. 1995. The musical clock: musical & automation clocks & watches. Ashbourne: Mayfield Books.
• Ortenberger, Rick. 1991. Black Forest Clocks. West Chester, Pa: Schiffer.
• Parsons, Charles S. 1976. New Hampshire Clocks and Clockmakers. Exeter, NH: Adams Brown Co.
• Randall, Anthony G. 1972. The Time Museum Catalogue of Chronometers. Rockford, Ill: Time Museum.
• Roberts, Derek, and Derek Roberts. 1996. Skeleton Clocks: Britain, 1800-1914. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club.
• Roberts, Derek. 1999. Mystery, Novelty, and Fantasy Clocks. A Schiffer book for collectors. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub.
• Roberts, Kenneth D. 1970. Connecticut Clock Technology of Joseph Ives 1810-1862. Bristol, CT: American Clock and Watch Museum.
• Robey, John A. 2001. The longcase clock reference book. Ashbourne: Mayfield.
• Rose, Ronald E. 1978. English Dial Clocks. Woodbridge [Eng.]: Antique Collectors' Club.
• Schaaf, Berthold. 2008. Schwarzwalduhren. Karlsruhe: G. Braun.
• Smith, Alan ed. 1979. The Country Life International Dictionary of Clocks. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
• Spittler, Sonya L., Thomas J. Spittler, and Chris H. Bailey. 2000. American clockmakers & watchmakers. American clocks, 3. Arlington, Va: Arlington Book Co.
• Sullivan, Gary R., and Kate Van Winkle Keller. 2013. Keeping time: musical clocks of early America 1730-1830 : exhibit catalog. North Grafton, Mass: Willard House & Clock Museum.
• Tardy, 1971-72. Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français. Paris: Tardy.
• Tardy, 1961. La Pendule Française. 3d ed. 3 vols. Paris: Tardy.
• Tennant, M. F. 2009. The Art of the Painted Clock Dial. Mayfield.