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This bibliography includes articles of a general nature published in Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society and Monumental Brass Society Bulletin, but excludes articles in these publications on the brasses of individual churches. For the latter, please search the topographical index - to access this web page click here
 

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Lists of brasses and incised slabs

Badham, S., Gittos, B., Gittos, M. and Lankester, P. 1994-8. 'List of 
Purbeck marble coffin-shaped slabs', Church Mons. Soc.
Newsletter 10, 4-11 and 34-7; 11, 18-21 and 45-50; 12,  
25-8 and 53-4;13, 13-8 and 44-9; 14, 22-4 and 41-4; 15,
10-21 and 42-9;  16, 17-20; 17.2, 13-21 and 19.1, 11-16.
Cameron, H.K., A List of Monumental Brasses on the Continent of 
Europe
(London, 1970)
Chivers, D., Catalogue of Rubbings from European Incised Slabs 
Deposited in the Society of Antiquaries of London

(London, 1999)
Greenhill, F.A., Incised Effigial Slabs, 2 vols. (London, 1976), vol. 2
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Bedfordshire
(London, 1992)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Berkshire
(London, 1993)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Buckinghamshire
London, 1994)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of
(London, 1995)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Cheshire
(London, 1996)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Cornwall
(London, 1997)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Cumberland and Westmoreland
(London, 
1998)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Derbyshire
(London, 1999)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Devonshire
(London, 2000)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Dorset
(London, 2001)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Durham
(London, 2002)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Essex,
2 vol. (London, 2003)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Gloucestershire
(London, 2005)
Lack, W., Stuchfield, M. and Whittemore, P., The Monumental 
Brasses of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
(London, 2007)
Sadler, A.G. The Indents of Lost Monumental Brasses in Southern 
England,
19 vols. (Worthing, 1975-86)
Stephenson, M., A List of Monumental Brasses in the British 
Isles
(London, 1926, Appendix 1938, repr. London, 1964)

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Up-to-date key works

Badham S. and Norris, M., Early Incised Slabs and Brasses from 
the London Marblers,
Reports of the Research Committee 
of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. 60 (London, 1999)
Bertram, J. (ed.), Monumental Brasses as Art and History (Stroud, 
1996)
Coales, J. (ed.), The Earliest English Brasses, Monumental Brass 
Society (London, 1987)
Greenhill, F.A., Incised Effigial Slabs, 2 vols. (London, 1976)
Meara, D., Victorian Memorial Brasses (London, 1983)
Monumental Brass Society, Monumental Brasses: The Portfolio 
Plates of the Monumental Brass Society 1894-1984
(1988) 
Norris, M., Monumental Brasses: The Memorials, 2 vols. (London, 
1977) 
Norris, M., Monumental Brasses: The Craft (London, 1978)
Saul, N., Death, Art and Memory in Medieval England: the Cobham 
family and their Monuments,
1300-1500 (Oxford, 2001)

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United Kingdom

General

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Andrew, L, Creative Rubbings (London, 1967)
Armstrong, P, 'The medieval archer's slab at St Bee's Priory Church
in Cumbria', Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries,
47 (2004), 98-99
Badham, S., Brasses from the North-East (London, 1979)
Badham, S., 'An interim study of the stones used for the slabs of 
English monumental brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 13 
(1985), 475-83
Badham S., 'London standardisation and provincial idiosyncrasy: the 
organisation and working practices of brass-engraving 
workshops in pre-Reformation England', Church Monuments 
5 (1990), 3-15
Badham, S., 'Richard Gough's papers relating to monumental brasses in 
the Bodleian Library, Oxford', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 14 
(1991), 467-513
Badham, S., 'Status and salvation: the design of medieval brasses and 
incised slabs', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 15 (1996), 413-65
Badham, S. 'Monumental brasses and the Black Death: a reappraisal', 
Antiq. J.
80 (2000), 207-47
Badham, S., 'The Contribution of Epigraphy to the Typological Classification
of Medieval English Brasses and Incised Slabs', in Higgett, J.,
Forsyth, K. and Parsons, D.N., Roman Runes and Ogham:
Medieval Inscriptions in the Insular World and on the
Continent
(Donington, 2002), 202-10
Badham, S., 'The Man at St. Brides who was "no klenely portrayer"
and other London Marblers' Workshops' , Bull. Mon. Brass Soc.
92 (Jan 2003), 650-3.
Badham, S., 'Medieval Greens: Recycling Brasses and their Slabs, Bull. Mon.
Brass Soc.
93 (May 2003), 673
Badham, S., 'Evidence for the Minor Funerary Industry 1100-1500'   in  K. Giles
and C. Dyer, Town and Country in the Middle Ages. Contrasts,
Contacts and Interconnections, 1100-1500
(Leeds, 2005), 165-96
Badham, S., ' "A new feire peynted stone": medieval English incised slabs?',
Church Monuments
19 (2004), 20-52
Badham, S., 'Cast copper-alloy tombs and London Series B brass production in the
late fourteenth century', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc., 16 (2004), 105-27  
Badham, S., 'The London C Workshop', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc., 16 (2005),
              223-250
Badham, S., Blair, J. and Emmerson, R., Specimens of Lettering on 
English Monumental Brasses
(London, 1976)
Badham, S., and Fiske, R., 'John Sell Cotman's Sepulchral Brasses of Norfolk and
Suffolk', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc., 16 (2002), 500-45  
Badham, S., Gittos, B., Gittos, M. and Lankester, P. 1994-8. 'List of 
Purbeck marble coffin-shaped slabs', Church Mons. Soc.
Newsletter 10, 4-11 and 34-7; 11, 18-21 and 45-50; 12,  
25-8 and 53-4;13, 13-8 and 44-9; 14, 22-4 and 41-4; 15,
10-21 and 42-9;  16, 17-20; 17, 13-21 and continuing
Badham S. and Norris, M., Early Incised Slabs and Brasses from 
the London Marblers,
Reports of the Research Committee of 
the Society of Antiquaries of London No. 60 (London, 1999)
Bagnell-Oakley, M.E., 'The dress of civilians in the Middle Ages from
              Monumental Effigies', Bristol and Glouc. Archaeol. Soc. 18
              (1893-4), 252-70
Bayliss, J., 'Richard Parker, the alabaster man', Church Monuments
(1990), 39-56
Bayliss, J., 'Richard and Gabriel Royley of Burton-upon-Trent, 
tomb makers', Church Monuments 6 (1991), 21-42
Bayliss, J., 'A Dutch carver: Garrett Hollemans I in England', Church 
Monuments
8 (1993), 45-56
Beaumont, E.T., Ancient Memorial Brasses (London, 1913)
Beaumont, E.T., Academic Costume Illustrated by Ancient Monumental
              Brasses
(privately printed London, 1928)
Beedell, S., Brasses and Brass Rubbing (Edinburgh, 1973)
Beloe, E.M., 'Notes on some early matrices in the eastern counties', 
J. Oxford Univ. Brass Rubbing Soc.
11 (1900), 35
Bertram J., Brasses and Brass Rubbing in England (Newton Abbot, 
1971)
Bertram, J., 'A Regency collection of brass rubbings', Trans. Mon. 
Brass Soc.
12 (1975), 90-100
Bertram J., Lost Brasses (Newton Abbot, 1976)
Bertram J., Rare Brass Rubbings from the Ashmolean Collection 
(Oxford, 1977)
Bertram, J., 'Orate pro anima: some aspects of medieval devotion 
illustrated on brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 13 (1983), 321-42
Bertram, J. (ed.), Monumental Brasses as Art and History (Stroud, 1996)
Bertram, J., 'Inscriptions on Late Medieval Brasses and Monuments', in Higgett,
 J., Forsyth, K. and Parsons, D.N., Roman Runes and Ogham:
Medieval Inscriptions in the Insular World and on the
Continent
(Donington, 2002), 190-201
Bertram, J., Monumental Brasses and Fragments in the Collection of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
(Oxford, 2004).
Bertram, J., ‘ From Duccius to Daubernon: Ancient Antecedents for Monumental
            Brass Design’, in L. Gilmour (ed), Pagans and Christians – from
            Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Papers in honour of Martin Henig
            presented on the occasion of his 65th birthday
, BAR International Series
            1619, 2007

Binski, P. 'The Stylistic Sequence of London Figure Brasses', in Coales, J.
(ed.), The Earliest English Brasses, Monumental Brass 
Society (London, 1987), 69-132
Binski, P., Medieval Death (London, 1996)
Binski, P., 'An analysis of the length of plates used for English 
monumental brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 15 (1999), 
229-38
Binski, P. and Blair, J., 'The tomb of Edward I and early London 
brass production', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 14 (1988), 
234-40
Blair, C., 'Les Plus Anciennes Effigies Funéraires Britanniques en Laiton
Représentant des Hommes d'Armes', le Musée s'Armes. Etudes
et Recherches sur les Armes Anciennes
, 33 année - No 109-110
(August 2005), 20-27
Blair, J., 'Henry Lakenham, marbler of London and a tomb contract 
of 1378', Antiq J. 60 (1980), 66-74
Blair, J., 'English monumental brasses before the Black Death', in 
Collectanea Historica: Essays in Memory of Stuart Rigold'
(ed. A.C. Detsicas), Kent Archaeol. Soc. (Maidstone, 1981)
Blair, J., 'Grave slabs in early fourteenth century England with added 
inscriptions in separate brass letters, Bull. Internat. Soc. Study 
Church Monuments
5 (1981), 86-8
Blair, J. 'English Monumental Brasses before the Black Death: Types,
Patterns and Workshops', in Coales, J. (ed.), The Earliest
 English Brasses,
Monumental Brass Society (London, 1987),
133-75
Blair, J., 'A bishop orders his brass: buying a slab from the Purbeck 
quarries', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc., 14 (1988), 243-5
Blair, J. and Ramsay, N., English Medieval Industries (London, 1991)
Blatchly, J., 'Dominical letters on brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 
12 (1976), 119-22
Bloxam, M.H., A Glimpse of the Monumental Architectural 
Sculpture of Great Britain
(London, 1834) 
Bouquet, A.C., Church Brasses (London, 1956)
Boutell, C., Monumental Brasses and Slabs (London, 1847)
Boutell, C., The Monumental Brasses of England: a Series of 
Engravings on Wood
(London, 1849)
Boutell, C., Christian Monuments in England and Wales (London,
1854)
Boutell, C., 'On Sepulchral Brasses and their Art Manufacture', The
             Builder
12 (1854), 542-3, 568-70 and 570-80
Bower, R., 'Medieval grave covers', Trans. Cumberland and 
Westmorland Antiq. and Archaeol. Soc.
7, (1907), 165-84; 
89 (1909), 1-23; (1912), 86-98
Bracken, J., Brasses and Brass Rubbings (privately printed, 1986) 
Bracken, J., The Most Noble Order of the Garter as Depicted on 
Monumental Brasses
(privately printed, 1991)
Brindley, H. and Weatherly, W., Ancient Sepulchral Monuments
             
(privately printed, 1887)
Briggs, N., 'The other MBS Conference Cover',  Bull. Mon. Brass Soc.
           
101 (January 2006),  5-6.
Browne, E., 'Ecclesiastical Head Dress', Trans. St Paul's Ecclesiolog.
             Soc.
3 (1895), 155
Brownsword, R., 'Medieval metalwork: an analytical study of copper-alloy
            objects', Historical Metallurgy 38 pt 2 (2004), 84-105
Burgess, F., English Churchyard Memorials (Lutterworth, 1963)
Busby, R., A Beginner's Guide to Brass Rubbing (London, 1969)
Busby, R., A Companion Guide to Brasses and Brass Rubbing  
(London, 1973)
Busby, R., The Monumental Brass Society: a Short History 
1887-1897
(London, 1987)
Busby, R., 'Rev Charles Boutell: further discoveries', Bull. Mon. Brass Soc.
90 (May 2002), 614
Butler, L.A.S., 'Medieval gravestones of Cambridgeshire, 
Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough', Cambridge 
Antiq. Soc.
50 (1957), 89-100
Butler, L.A.S., 'Some early northern grave covers - a reassessment', 
Archaeol. Aeliana
36 (1958), 207-20
Butler, L.A.S., 'Minor medieval monumental sculpture in the east 
Midlands', Archaeol. J. 121 (1964), 111-53
Butler, L.A.S., 'Symbols on medieval memorials', Arch. J. 144 (1987), 
246-55
Butler, L.A.S., 'Cistercian abbots' tombs and abbey seals', in Parsons 
Lillich, M. (ed.), Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture 4,
Cistercian Studies 134 (Kalamazoo, 1993), 78-88 and 243-250
Cairns, K, Brass Rubbings: a Pageant of History (1966)
Cambridge Camden Society, Illustrations of the Monumental 
Brasses of Great Britain
(Cambridge, 1840-6)
Cameron, H.K., 'Speakers of the House of Commons commemorated 
by brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 7 (1942), 331-41; 8 
(1945), 23
Cameron, H.K., 'The metals used in monumental brasses', Trans. Mon. 
Brass. Soc.
8 (1946), 109-30
Cameron, H.K., 'Technical aspects of medieval monumental brasses', 
Archaeol. J.
131 (1974) 215-37
Cameron, H.K., '14th century Flemish brasses to ecclesiastics in 
England', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 13 (1980), 3-24
Cameron, H.K., 'Flemish brasses to civilians in England', Archaeol. J. 
(1982), 420-40
Cameron, H.K., 'Attributes of the Apostles on the Tournai school of 
brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 13 (1983), 283-303
Cannan, F., 'Some Petty Gentry and their Brasses 1450-1650', J. Antique
Metalwork Society
13 (June 2005), 40-44
Catling, H. Notes on Brass Rubbing (with a list of some brasses in 
the Oxford region),
Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1965;
many other eds.)
Chapman, L., Church Memorial Brasses and Brass Rubbing (Princes 
Risborough, 1987) 
Clark, A. 'The Monumental Brass Society collection', The Heslopian No. 1
(University of Birmingham Information Services, 2003), 14-16
Clayton, H.J., The Ornaments of the Ministers as shown on English 
Monumental Brasses,
Alcuin Club Collections 22 (London, 1919)
Clayton, M., Catalogue of Brasses and Brass Rubbings [in the 
Victoria and Albert Museum]
(London, 1915; revised 
1929; repr. London, 1968)
Coales, J. (ed.), The Earliest English Brasses, Monumental Brass 
Society
(London, 1987) 
Coales J., 'The drawings of Roger de Gaignières: loss and survival', 
Church Monuments
12 (1997), 14-34
Cook, M., Discovering Brasses and Brass Rubbing (Tring, 1971)
Coss, P., The Knight in Medieval England (Stroud, 1995)
Coss, P., The Lady in Medieval England (Stroud, 1998)
Council for Care of Churches, Monumental Brasses and Brass 
Rubbing
(London, 1973)
Council for Places of Worship, Monumental Brasses and Brass Rubbing 
(London 1973)
Craddock, P.T., 'Some Analyses of Medieval Monumental Brasses', Trans. Mon.
Brass Soc. 16 (2000-1), 315-26
Crossley, F., English Church Monuments (London, 1921)
Cutts, E.L., A Manual for the Study of Sepulchral Slabs and 
Crosses of the Middle Ages
(London, 1849)
Davis, C., 'Merchants Marks', J. Brit. Archaeol. Assn. 49 (1893), 45-54
Davis, R.B. and Jean. A., 'Monumental Brasses of British Physicians',
                J. History of Medicine (July, 1973), 243-56
d'Elboux, R.H., 'Testamentary brasses', Antiq. J. 29 (1949), 183-91
d'Elboux, R.H., 'External brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc.
(1946-9), 150-219, 208-19 
Dennison, L., 'French or Flemish?: A Fragment of a Pontifical Brass in the British
Museum', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 16 (2000-1), 327-48
Dingley, T., History from Marble (Camden Soc. 1866-8)
Dobree, H.C.P., 'Eccclestical Brasses, their classification, general features
              and peculiarities', Oxford University Brass Rubbing Soc. 1
              (1897-9), 86-98
Dowden, A., 'Towards a Complete List of Known Heraldic Effigies', 
Bull. Mon. Brass Soc.
62 (Feb 1993), 42-5; 63 (June 1993), 
57-64
Druitt, H., A Manual of Costume as Illustrated by Monumental 
Brasses
(London, 1906, repr. Bath, 1970)
Druitt, H., 'College Caps and Doctors Hats', Archaeol. J. 66 (1904), 33
Dryden, H.E.L., 'On the Ancient method of Fixing Sepulchral Brasses',
              Assoc. Architect. Soc. Reports and Papers 11 (Dec. 1889),
              89-93
Duffy, M., Royal Tombs of Medieval England (Stroud, 2003)
Edleston, R.H., 'Monumental brasses', Peterborough Nat. Hist., 
Scientific and Archaeol. Soc.
(Peterborough, 1932), 1-3
Edleston, R.H., 'Incised monumental slabs parts I-IV', Annual 
Reports of the Peterborough Nat. Hist., Sci. and Archaeol. 
Soc.
61-4 (Peterborough, 1934-7) 
Edleston, R.H., 'Monumental brasses and incised slabs', Teesdale 
Record Soc
. 5 (1939-40), 17-8
Edleston, R.H., Incised monumental slabs Parts V, (Barnard Castle, 
1942) 
Edleston, R.H., Incised monumental slabs Part VI, (Darlington, 1943) 
Edwards, L., 'The professional costume of lawyers illustrated chiefly by 
monumental brasses', J. Brit. Archaeol. Assn. 40 (1934), 135-54;
              Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 7 (1936), 97-108; 8 (1937), 145-64
Edwards, M., 'Emblems on medieval cross-bearing grave-covers: some 
problems of interpretation', Lancashire Archaeol. Bull. 6 (1981),
4-22
Edwards, M., 'Emblems on medieval cross-bearing grave-covers: 
further discussion', Lancashire Archaeol. Bull. 7 (1981), 54-9
Egan, B.S. and Stuchfield, M., The Repair of Monumental Brasses 
(Newport Pagnell, 1981)
Emmerson, R., 'Monumental brasses - London design c. 1420-85', J. 
Brit. Archaeol. Assoc.
131 (1978), 50-78
Emmerson, R., 'John Lorymer's Stock: "marbylle stonys and laten wurke 
therto belonging"', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 13 (1983), 304-5 
Emmerson, R. 'Design for mass production: monumental brasses made in 
London c. 1420-85', in Artistes, Artisans et Production 
Artistique au Moyen-Age 3: Fabrication et consommation 
de l'oeuvre,
133-71 (Rennes, 1990)
Esdaile, A.J.K. and d'Elboux, R.H., 'An alphabetical list of post-
Reformation brasses of known authorship', Trans. Mon. Brass 
Soc.
8 (1944), 140-4
Evans, H.F.O., 'Latten lecterns', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 9 (1960),
              375-8
Evans, H.F.O., 'The fixing of brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 10 
(1964), 58-62
Evans, H.F.O., 'The tonsure on brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 11 
(1969), 38-40 
Evans, H.F.O., 'The resurrection on brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc.  
11 (1970), 88-100
Evans, H.F.O., 'The penner and inkhorn on brasses and incised slabs', 
Trans. Mon. Brass Soc.
11 (1971), 128-35
Evans, H.F.O., 'The Holy Trinity on brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 
13 (1982), 208-223 
Fairbank, F.R., 'Pardon Brasses', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 2 (1892),
9-11
Fawcett, J., Historic Floors; their History and Conservation (Oxford, 
1998)
Field, W.E., 'The Resurrection as Represented in Monumental Brasses',
              Oxford University Brass Rubbing Soc. 1 (1897-9), 130-7
              and 130-7
Fiske, G., 'Monumental Brasses and Brass Rubbing', New York
              Churchman
(16 February 1900)
Forster, W.C., 'Monumental Brasses and the Evangelistic Symbols',
              London Naturalist
(1935), 55-60
Franklin, J., Brasses (London, 1970)
Freeth, S., 'The Brasses of the British Museum: a Historical Survey', Trans
Mon. Brass Soc. 16 (2000-2001), 304-14 {this volume of Trans is
devoted to the B.M.'s brasses]
Gadd, M.D., 'English monumental brasses of the fifteenth and sixteenth 
centuries, with special reference to the process of their 
manufacture', J. Brit. Archaeol. Assn. 3, 2nd series (1937), 
17-46
Gallagher, C.D.T., Brass Images, Medieval Lives (Laxington 1980)
Gawthorpe, T.J., Catalogue of memorial Brasses Engraved by
              Gawthorpe
(unpublished, but in V&A Art library, 1856)
Gawthorpe, T.J., Designs and Examples of Monumental Heraldic
              and memorial Brasses, drawn, wrought and engraved by
              T.J. Gawthorpe
(privately printed, 1881)
Gawthorpe, T.J. and W.E., A Manual of Practical Instruction in the art
              of Brass Repousse for Amateurs
(London, 1891, many
              subsequent eds.)
Gawthorpe, W.E. The Brasses of our Homeland Churches (London, 
1923)
Gawthorpe, W.E., 'Ancient and modern methods of engraving brasses', 
Trans. St. Paul's Ecclesiolog. Soc
. 9 (1922), 65-74
Gawthorpe, 'Some remarks on Stones used for Ancient Brasses and
              Incised Slabs', The Builder (16 February 1912), 186-8
Girling, F.A., English Merchants Marks (1962)
Gittings, C., Brasses and Brass Rubbing (London, 1970)
Gittings, C. and R., The Graven Image (Oxford, 1993)
Goodall, J, ‘Epitaphs – a neglected aspect of brasses’, MBS Bull. 6
              (June 1974), pp. 12-13
Goodall, J., Monumental Brasses and Incised Slabs, A Medieval Art 
Exhibition catalogue (1967)
Gough, R., Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain, 2 vols. in 5 or 8
(London, 1786-96)
Gray, G.J., Index to the contents of the Cole Manuscripts in the
              British Museum (Cambridge, 1912, repr. 2003)
Greenhill, F.A., Incised Effigial Slabs, 2 vols. (London, 1976)
Greenwood, R., 'Haines's Cambridge School of Brasses, Trans. Mon. 
Brass Soc.
11 (1971), 2-12
Haines, H., Treatise on Brasses (Oxford, 1845)
Haines, H., A Manual for the Study of Monumental Brasses (Oxford, 
1848)
Haines, H., Manual of Monumental Brasses (London, 1861, re-printed 
Bath, 1970)
Halls, S., 'The Occurrence of Flemish Brasses in England', J. Brit.
              Archaeol. Assn.
2nd ser. 1, 346
Hamilton, H., The English Brass and Copper Industry to 1800  
(London, 1926)
Harraden, G., 'Brasses and Brass Rubbing;, Girls Own Paper (May 1893)
Harrison, S.E., 'Monumental Brasses and Incised Slabs, Teesdale Record
Soc.
5 (1939-40), 17-8
Harley, D., Monumental Brasses (1993)
Heseltine, P., Heraldry on Brasses: The Mill Stephenson Collection 
of Shields of Arms on British Brasses at the Society of 
Antiquities
(Godmanchester, 1994)
Heseltine, P., Modern Signed Brasses (privately printed, 1996)
Heseltine, P., Engravers of Monumental Brasses (2001)
Heseltine, P., 'Machine made brasses', Bull. Mon. Brass Soc. 99
(May 2005), 798-99
Heseltine, P. A bestiary of brasses (LOughbrough, 2006
Hollis, T. and G., Monumental Effigies of Great Britain (London, 
1840)
Hutchins, P.F., Notes on Engraving Monumental Brasses  
(Birmingham, 1979)
Hutchinson, R., 'Dr. Richard Haydock, brass engraver and "sleeping 
preacher"', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 11 (1975), 396-401
Hutchinson, R. and Egan, B.S., 'History writ in brass: the Fermer 
workshop 1546-55', Trans. Mon. Brass Soc. 15 (1993-6), 
256-81,  335-73 and 466-85; 16 (1997-9), 56-72, 
157-76, 241-66; and continuing
Hutchinson, R., Drawings of Monumental Brasses and Incised 
Slabs by the Waller Brothers
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