Library Committee Publications

The publications listed below can be purchased by completing an order form. Click HERE to open in new window.

To order online and pay by online transfer please your order to Paul Johnson and you will be sent bank details.

The annual essays on bibliographical subjects, issued to Friends of the CC Library, can be found HERE and are freely available for downloading.

Order and Disorder in the Eighteenth Century - REPRINT AND SUPPLEMENT NOW AVAILABLE

Cyril Wratten (compiler) Order and Disorder in the Eighteenth Century: Newspaper extracts about Church Bells and Bellringing, completed, edited and prepared for publication by John Eisel. xvi + 381pp, soft covers, illustrated.

This important publication reveals the spread of change ringing, the 'sport' among ringers, the distances they were prepared to travel etc. A resource for research projects, an ideal present and a good read!

£26 (£23 to Friends of the CC Library) plus £6 p&p

Supplement to Order and Disorder in the Eighteenth Century.
Compiled by John Eisel. vi + 72pp, soft covers, illustrated.

This supplement contains much new information on London ringing in the second half of the 18thC, as well as new material on a number of bell founders throughout the 18thC, abstracted from over 70 newspapers.

£8 (£6 to Friends of the CC Library) plus £3 p&p (free p&p if ordered with Order and Disorder)

Ringing World 1911-1940 DVDs

Two DVDs containing more than 23,000 pages of The Ringing World from 1911 to 1940 held in 30 fully searchable pdf files. In addition a 2,600 item index and a short history of The Ringing World are included.

An invaluable source of information for research into ringers, ringing, towers and associations.

£35 (£30 to Friends of the CC Library) plus £2 p&p

System Requirements: PC with Windows XP or later and at least 250MB of memory; DVD-ROM drive; Adobe Acrobal Reader; Internet Explorer version 7 or Mozilla Firefox version 3

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Bell News DVD

This DVD brings together what is probably the most complete run of this important journal, published monthly in 1881/2 and weekly between 1883 and 1915. It includes prelim pages, supplements and pictorial inserts, not usually found in bound copies. Out of more than 27,000 published pages only 5 were untraceable (4 prelims and one insert) and so are not included. The compehensive index produced by the late Cyril Wratten (with more than 16,000 headings and 142,00 references) allows 'point and click' access to items on subjects such as peals and other ringing, places, guilds and associations.

£50 (£45 to Friends of the CC Library) plus £2 p&p

System Requirements: PC with Windows XP or later and at least 250MB of memory; (See Techical Notes below for running under Linux); DVD-ROM drive; Adobe Acrobal Reader; Internet Explorer version 6 or Mozilla Firefox version 2

Click HERE for Technical Notes.

Two Ringing Periodicals CD - Now as searchable pdf files

Campanology No 1 (16 September 1896) - No 26 (10 March 1897)

The Bellringer No 1 (5 January 1907) - No 9 (1 June 1907)

Indexes to Campanology and The Bellringer

£10

The Trollope Manuscript CD

One of the most important items in the CC Library is the Trollope manuscript, the product of a lifetime's research by J Armiger Trollope. It covers the history of change ringing in London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, together with a chapter on ringing in the provinces and a bibliography. This unique and important manuscript of over 7,000 pages deserves to be better known and to be readily available to researchers.

New version in preparation

The Library Catalogue 2002

The Library Catalogue 2002 - Part 1: Printed Books, together with 2007 update

Part 1 of the Library Catalogue extends to about 160 pages. It is an essential reference work for those collect books on the subject, or who run a similar library, or who are just interested in what has been published over the years. The comprehensive nature of the CC Library means that this is the fullest bibliography that has yet been published.

£10 (£7 to Friends of the CC Library)

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