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"Windmill books are even rarer than windmills" -
John Vince.
A Field Guide to American Windmills - T Lindsay Baker, foreword by Donald E Green, University of Oklahoma Press, c1985, ISBN:0806119012
A Source Book of Windmills and Watermills - Rex Wailes, Ward Lock, London, 1979, ISBN:070635768X
American Windmills : Harnessers of Energy - Shaaron Cosner, diagrams by Marie and Nils Ostberg, D McKay Co., New York, 1977, ISBN:0679204083
An Old Essex Windmill -
Book and Magazine Collector
(No 107)
- , Feb 93. article on windmill and watermill books
British Windmills and Watermills
(Number 120 in the Britain in Pictures series)
- C P Skilton, Collins, London, 1947
Catch the Wind : A Book of Windmills and Windpower - Landt Dennis, photos by Lisl Dennis, Four Winds Press, New York, 1976, ISBN:0590074148
Corn Milling
(Shire Album no. 98)
- Martin Watts, Shire Publications, ISBN:0 85263 623 7
De Zwaan - The Story of the Dutch Windmill - , 1965
Discovering Windmills
(Number 13 in the "Discovering" series)
- John Vince, Shire Publications, 1968
Dutch Windmills - Introduction by B. van der Zeen Czn. member of the board of the
association De Hollandsche Molen, International Art Publishing Company Groningen
England's Vanishing Windmills - A E P Shillingford, Godfrey Cave Associates Ltd, London, 1979, ISBN:0 906223 15 6
England of the Windmills - S P B Mais, J M Dent, 1931
English Windmills, Vol 1 - Kent, Surrey, Sussex - M I Batten, Architectural Press, 1930
English Windmills, Vol 2 - Bucks, Essex, Herts, Middlesex and London - Donald Smith, Architectural Press, 1932
Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Kenneth G Farries, Charles Skilton, 198x.
Published in 5 Volumes.
An Historical Review
A Technical Review
A review by Parishes A to E
A review by Parishes F to R
A review by Parishes S to Z
Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights. Volume 1V: A Review by Parishes, F-R - Keith Farries, Charles Skilton, 1985
Harness the Wind : The Story of Windmills - Joseph E Brown and Anne Ensign Brown, Dodd, Mead, New York, 1977, ISBN:0396074847
Harvesting the Air : Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-century England - Edward J Kealey, Boydell Press, 1987, ISBN:0851154913
{US edition - University of California Press, 1987, ISBN 0520056809}
History of Corn Milling Volume 2 Watermills and Windmills - Richard Bennett and John Elton, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1899
Homemade Windmills of Nebraska - Erwin Hinckley Barbour, Agric. Experiment Station bulletin, 1899 - (reprinted recently)
I Bought a Windmill - Elizabeth Adair, Aberdeen University Press, 1978, ISBN:0900015438
In Praise Of Windmills - Jeremy Hooker, Circle Press Pubns, 1990, ISBN:0901380598
In Search of English Windmills - R. Thurston Hopkins, Cecil Palmer, London, 1931
Industrial Archaeology : Windmills and Waterfalls - Christine Vialls, A & C Black Ltd, 1971
Kinderdike - Leonard Everett Fisher, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994
Life in a Sussex Windmill - Edward Martin, Allen and Donaldson, 1921 (2nd edition)
Lincolnshire Windmills - Peter Dolman, Lincolnshire County Council, 1986
Mills and Millwrighting
(Shire Album number 33)
- John Vince, Shire Publications, ISBN:0852634315
Mills of Canada - Carol Priamo, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976, ISBN:0070824029
Mills Open - Edited by Jim Woodward-Nutt, Society For the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Mills Section,, Sixth edition 2000, ISBN:1 898856 052.
Previous editions had various authors/titles
"Mills Open" - 5th Edition by Jim Woodward-Nutt and Jenny West, 1997. ISBN 1 898856 044;
"Windmill and Watermills Open to View", 1986. ISBN 0903090953
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Model-Making Book 1 - , The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio
Molens in Drenthe - A Bicker Caarten,
Uitgeverij Waanders, Zwolle i.s.m. Koninklijke Uitgeverij en Drukkerij J.A. Boom en Zoon, Meppel
[Uitgave onder auspiciën van de Molenstichting Drenthe]
, 1976?
Molens van Nederland -
Molens: Het Utrechts molenbestand - Besten, ing. J. den // Keunen, ing. G.H., Stichting De Utrechtse Molens, 1988
More Windmill Land : Being Part II of "Windmill Land" - Clarke, Allen, J. M. Dent, London, 1918
Norfolk Corn And Other Industrial Windmills - Harry Apling, Norfolk Windmills Trust, 1985, ISBN:0950979309
Odd Aspects of England: Follies, Windmills, Lock-Ups, Prehistoric,
Roman and Medieval Remains, Natural Features, Memorials,
Bridges, etc. - Garry Hogg, Arco Publishing Company, New York, 1969
Old Sydney Windmills - Len Fox, published by the author, Potts Point, N.S.W., 1978, ISBN:0959810463
Old Watermills and Windmills - R Thurston Hopkins, Philip Allan and Co Ltd, London, 1933
Old Windmills of Chishill - Phillip Unwin, Ely Resource and Technology Centre, 1977, ISBN:0904463247
Power Before Steam - John Vince, Juhn Murray (Publishers) Ltd, 1985, ISBN:0-7195-4175-1
Power from Wind: A History of Windmill Technology - Richard L Hills, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN:0521413982 (paperback 052156686X)
{reprinted with corrections 1996}
Practical Milling - Prof. B.W. Dedrick, originally published by National Miller magazine, Chicago, IL, 1924.
Reprinted by the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills, Newton, NC, 1989.
Research Inspired by The Dutch Windmills - H. Veenman en Zonen, Wageningen, 1952
Research Inspired By the Dutch Windmills; an Account of an Extensive Programme of Research and Development Initiated and Organized By the 'Prinsenmolen' Committee - , 1956
Scottish Windmills : A Survey - Graham J Douglas, Miles Oglethorpe, and John R Hume, Scottish Industrial Archaelogy Survey, Dept. of History,
University of Strathclyde in association with the Royal Commission
on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1984
Somerset Windmills - Martin Watts, Agraphicus, 1976
Suffolk Windmills - Brian Flint, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1979, ISBN:0851151124
The American Miller and Millwright's Assistant - William Carter Hughes,
Henry Carey Baird (Successor to E. L. Carey), No. 7 Hart's Buildings, Sixth Street, above Chestnut, Philadelphia
, 1856 - A New Edition, revised with much additional matter
The Dutch Windmill - Frederick Stokhuyzen, English translation - Universe Books Inc, New York, 1963
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The Dutch Windmill - Frederick Stokhuyzen, Bussum: Van Dishoeck, 1962
The Early Windmills of New Jersey and Nearby States - Harry B Weiss and Grace M Weiss, Trenton, New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1969
The English Windmill - Rex Wailes, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954
The English Windmill - Rex Wailes, Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1968
The Mill -
William Fox, Production~Design Bill Brooks, Photography Janice Tyrwhitt
, 1976
The Miller and Milling Engineer - Charles E Oliver, Warsaw, Indiana.
The Miller in Eighteenth-Century Virginia - , Williamsburg Craft Series. Colonial Williamsburg, 1973
The Millers Assistant - Oliver Evans, Blanchard and Lea, Philadelphia, 15th edition 1860
The Mills of Medieval England - Richard Holt, B Blackwell, 1988, ISBN:0631156925
The Mills of the Isle of Wight - Kenneth Major, Charles Skilton, 1970, ISBN:0284795380
The Old Hook Mill and other Old English Windmills of East Hampton, Long Island, New York, and Vicinity - Jeannette Edwards Rattray, board of trustees of the Village of East Hampton, 1953
The Old Windmill of Brisbane Town - Grenfell Heap, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, 1983, ISBN:0908175612
The Practical American Millwright & Miller - David Craik, Henry Carey, Philadelphia, 1870
The Practical American Millwright and Miller: Comprising the Elementary Principles of Mechanics, Mechanism, and Motive Power Hydraulics, and Hydraulic Motors, Mill Dams, Saw, Grist, Oat, Barely Mill, Wool Carding, Cloth fulling and dressing, windmills - Craik, David, Henry Corey Baird, Philadelphia, 1882
The Reflections and Rhymes of an Old Miller - James Edwin Saunders, Hodder & Stoughton, London
The Restoration of Windmills and Windpumps in Norfolk - Martin Scott, drawings Mel Harris, Norfolk Windmills Trust, 1977
The Standing Windmills of East Sussex - Richard and Richard McDermott, Betford Publications, 1978, ISBN:0906396018
The Standing Windmills of West Sussex - Richard and Richard McDermott, Betford Publications, 1978, ISBN:090639600X
The Story of Outwood Mill -
The Story of Sprowston Mill - H C Harrison, Phoenix House, London, 1949
The Talking Millstones - Camilla Wing, Pillsbury Institute of Flour, 1945
The Versatile Millstone: Workhorse Of Many Industries - Jon Sass, Society for the Preservation of Old Mills, Newton, NC, 1984, ISBN:0-930497-00-7
The Way Things Work -- Build Your Own Windmill - Edmund V. Gillon,JR., Perigree, 1981
The Wind at Work - An Activity Guide to Windmills - Gretchen Woelfle, Chicago Review Press, 1997, ISBN:1 55652 308 4
The Windmill : Architecture and Energy - Carole Cable, Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, Ill., 1983, ISBN:0880663413
The Windmill and Its Times. A Series of Articles Dealing with the Early Days of the Windmill - Shuttleworth, E. B., William Gooderham, Edward D. Apted, Printer, Toronto, 1924
The Windmill as a Prime Mover - Alfred E. Wolff, M.E., Consulting Engineer, Associate Editor "American Engineer", Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Etc.,, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1885
{2nd edition: Wiley and Sons, New York, 1900}
The Windmill, Yesterday and Today - Rodney de Little, John Baker, London, 1972, ISBN:0212983970
{Reprinted 1975}
The Windmills of Anglesey - Barry Guise, Attic Books, 1992
The Windmills of Crosby
(Crosby Historical publications, No. 1)
- Frank Tyrer, Borough of Crosby Public Libraries, 1972, ISBN:0950245208
The Windmills of England - Rodney de Little, Colwood Press, 1997, ISBN:0 9529930 0 7
The Windmills of Kent - Jenny West, Charles Skilton, 1973, ISBN:0284985341
{2nd revised and enlarged edition, 1979. ISBN 0705000656}
The Windmills of Leicestershire and Rutland - Nigel Moon, Sycamore Press, Wymondham, 1981, ISBN:0905837096. Published as a limited edition of 500 copies
The Windmills of Sussex - Martin Brunnarius, Phillimore, 1979, ISBN:0850333458
Upminster Mill - Anthony D. Butler, Peter Davis, Hornchurch, 1968
Vanad Eesti pukktuulikud (Old Estonian windmills) - V.Fuchs, 1971
Victorian and Edwardian Windmills and Watermills from Old Photographs - J Kenneth Major and Martin Watts, Fitzhouse Books, London, 1977
{Reprinted 1983, and 1992. ISBN 0 7134 0621 6}
Water-mills, Windmills and Horse-mills of South Africa - James Walton, C Struik, Cape Town, 1974, ISBN:0869770403
Water and Wind Mills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight - edited by Monica Ellis, Southampton University Industrial Archaeology Group, 1978, ISBN:0905280016
Water and Wind Power - Martin Watts, Shire Publications, 2000, ISBN:0-7478-0418-4
Watermills and Windmills
(A National Trust Pocketbook)
- J Kenneth Major, 1986, ISBN:0-7117-0176-8
Watermills and Windmills of Middlesex - Guy Blythman, Baron Birch, 1996, ISBN:0860235386
Watermills and Windmills. A Historical Survey of their Rise,
Decline and Fall as Portrayed by those of Kent - William Coles Finch, The C W Daniel Company, 1933
{Reprinted Arthur J Cassell Ltd, 1976. ISBN 0 903253 02 X}
Wiltshire Windmills - Martin Watts, 1980
Wind-catchers : American Windmills of Yesterday and Tomorrow - Volta Torrey, Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vt, 1976, ISBN:0828902925
Wind Catchers: American Windmills of Yesterday & Tomorrow - Volta Torrey, The Stephen Greene Press, 1976
Wind Molens in Nederland -
WIND, WATER, WORK: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MILLING TECHNOLOGY - Lucas, Adam, Brill Academic Publishers, 2006, ISBN:9004146490
Windmill Gazetteer for England - AA Bryan, The Mills Research Group, 1998, ISBN:0 9530049 0 2
Windmill Land - Allen Clarke, J.M. Dent, London, 1916
{
George Kelsall
Smith Settle
1986
Facsimile 1986 edition reproduced from the First Edition of 1916.
Limited edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated by photographs.
}
Windmills - Alan John Clegg, Horseshoe Publications, 1995, ISBN:1899310266
Windmills - Frank Brangwyn and Hayter Preston, John Lane, London; Dodd, Mead and company, New York, 1923
{reprinted Gale Research Co, Detroit, 1975. ISBN 0810340771}
Windmills - Frank Brangwyn and Hayter Preston, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company
, 1923
Windmills - Laura Brooks, Metro Books, 1999
Windmills - Sally Taylor, Todtri, 1999
Windmills - Suzanne Beedell, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975
Windmills - Suzanne Beedell, foreword by Henry Longhurst, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1975, ISBN:0715368117
{US edition published Scribner, New York, 1975. ISBN 0684144875}
{Second Impression 1979, hardback ISBN 0 7153 6811 7, paperback ISBN 0 7153 7879 1}
Windmills - Thurston Hopkins, Charles Clarke Ltd - Haywards Heath - Sussex,
There is no publishing date but almost certainly the 1930's.
Windmills - An old-new energy source - Lucile McDonald, Nelson Books, 1981
Windmills : A Bibliographical Guide - Christopher Francis Lindsey, Published by the author, London, 1974, ISBN:095030011X
Windmills : An Old-new Energy Source - Lucile McDonald, drawings by Helen Hawkes Battey, Elsevier/Nelson Books, New York, c1981, ISBN:0525667083
Windmills and Millwrighting - Stanley Freese, Cambridge University Press, 1957
{Reprinted David and Charles, 1971. ISBN 0715353659}
Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island - Anne Frances, Sister Pulling, Gerald A. Leeds, Arcadia, 1999, ISBN:073850288X
Windmills and Watermills
(From the series 'Excursions into architecture')
- John Reynolds, H Evelyn, 1970, ISBN:0238789438
{reprinted with corrections 1974}
{US Edition published Praeger, New York, 1970. ISBN 0275496902}
Windmills and Watermills open to view - , SPAB Mills Section, 1986
Windmills and Wind Power : A Bibliography - Mary Vance, Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, Ill., 1981
Windmills in East Sussex - J B Paddon, Oxonian Press, 1925
Windmills in England - A Study of Their Origin, Development, and Future - Rex Wailes, The Architectural Press, 1948
{Reprinted Charles Skilton, 1983, ISBN 0284400076}
Windmills in Holland - K Boonenburg, Netherlands Govt. Information Service, The Hague, 1952
Windmills in Holland - K. Boonenburg, Netherlands Government Information Office The Hague, 1951
Windmills in Lambeth: An Historical Survey - Michael Short, London Borough of Lambeth, 1971, ISBN:0950189308
Windmills in Sussex - G M Fowell, Walkers Galleries, 1930
Windmills in Sussex - Rev. Peter Hemming, The C W Daniel Company, 1936
Windmills in West Sussex - J B Paddon, Oxonian Press, 1926
Windmills of Birmingham and the Black Country - Joseph McKenna, K A F Brewin Books, Studley, Warwickshire, 1986, ISBN:0947731105
Windmills of Devon
(Exeter papers in industrial archaeology, number 7)
- Walter Minchinton, Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group, 1977, ISBN:0950177865
Windmills of England - R J Brown, Robert Hale Ltd, 1975, ISBN:0 7091 5641 3
Windmills of England - R.J. Brown, 1989
Windmills of Long Island - Robert J Hefner, Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, W W Norton and Company, New York, 1983, ISBN:softback 0 393 30141 9, hardback 039301780X
Windmills of Long Island - Robert J. Hefner, W.W. Norton & Co, 1984
Windmills of New England: Their Genius, Madness, History and Future - Daniel Lombardo, On Cape Publications, 2003, ISBN:0971954771
Windmills of Northamptonshire And The Soke Of Peterborough - Trevor Leonard Stainwright, W D Wharton, 1991, ISBN:0951855700
Windmills of Somerset And The Men Who Worked Them - Alfred J Coulthard and Martin Watts, Research Pub Co, 1978, ISBN:0705000605
Windmills of Suffolk - Dean Regan
Windmills of Surrey and Inner London - Kenneth G Farries and M T Mason, Charles Skilton, 1966
Windmills on Cape Cod & the Islands - Fredrika A. Burrows, William S. Sullwold Publishing, Inc, 1978
Windmills, Bridges and Old Machines : Discovering Our Industrial Past - David Weitzman, Scribner, New York, c1982, ISBN:0684174561
Videos
Seven Centuries of the English Windmill
David Bent, narrated by Janet Suzman,
1996,
ISBN 0 85236 358 3
Other resources
It's worth seeing what the various online catalogs give
