[AUTHOR’S NOTE]
Acknowledgements must be expressed to the following persons who have assisted in supplying photographs or other materials for the illustrations to this book: to the Rev. W. H. Frere, Mr. A. Riley, and the Committee of the Alcuin Club for permission to reproduce in plate [4] a page of a MS. Pontifical; to Dr. Amherst D. Tyssen and the Rev. Dr. Jessopp for blocks; to W. Watson, Esq., of York, and Miss Wilson of Idbury for photographs; to Messrs. Wills and Hepworth of Loughborough, Messrs. Mears and Stainbank, and Messrs. Taylor and Co. of Loughborough for blocks, negatives and photographs.
[CONTENTS]
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Early History and Methods of Casting | [1] |
| II. | The English Bell-founders | [21] |
| III. | Big Bells; Carillons and Chimes; Campaniles | [43] |
| IV. | Change-Ringing | [67] |
| V. | Uses and Customs of Bells | [81] |
| VI. | The Decoration of Bells and their Inscriptions | [105] |
| VII. | The Care of Bells | [139] |
| Index | [157] | |