# All these titles held by the Lighthouse Society of Great Britain
#Adams, W. H. D. Lighthouse and Lighthouses and Lightships, 1878.
Ambrus, Victor G. The Lighthouse Keeper's Son, published by Oxford United Press, 1969. ISBN 0-1927-1305-1. Childrens' book.
#Anonymous. Five Generations in a lighthouse, The lightkeeper., IV(6): 35-36, 1911.
Armstrong, R. Grace Darling - Maid and Myth, published by J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, 1965.
Ballantyne, R. M. The Lighthouse, James Nisbet and Co. Ltd., London, ca1895.
#Barton, Bradford. British Channel Pilot, Bradford Barton, Truro UK, 1972 (reprinted). Book originally published in 1859.
Beaver, Patrick. A History of Lighthouses, Peter Davies Ltd., London W1X 8BE, 1971. ISBN 0-4320-1290-7.
Beaver, Patrick. A History of Lighthouses, Carol Publishing Group, 1973. ISBN 0-8065-0368-8.
Boer, G. D. A History of the Spurn Lighthouses, East Yorkshire Local History Society, Beverley Library, Champney Road, Beverley, North Humberside, 1968 and 1984. ISBN 9-0034-9247
Bowen, J. P. Lighthouses, Lightships and Buoys, Mariner's Mirror, 23(July): pages 277-294, 1937.
Bowen, J. P. British Lighthouses, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., London, 1947.
Bradner, Lawrence H. The Plum Beach Light: The Birth, Life & Death of a Lighthouse, 1989, L H Bradner. ISBN 0-9624-2480-3.
Brown, C. G. The Eddystone Lighthouses, for Plymouth City Museums and Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK, 1988. Buchanan, Stewart. The Lighthouse Keepers, Coral Coast Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-6461-8458-X.
Carter, G. C. Looming Lights, Constable, London, 1945. Carter, C. Cornish Shipwrecks. The North Coast, Pan Books, London, 1978. ISBN 0-3302-5369-7.
Case, A. H. Beachy Head New Lighthouse, Minutes of Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng., (No. 3461): 267-280, ca1902.
Chadwick, Lee. Lighthouses and Lightships, published by Dennis Dobson Books Ltd., London W8, 1971. ISBN 0-2347-7551-3.
#Chance Brothers and Co. Ltd. A Few Notes on Modern Lighthouse Practice, 1910.
#Channel Pilot, Hydrographer to the Navy, HMSO, 1977.
Cloud, Ellen Fulcher. Ocracoke Lighthouse: Island History 1)
Cobb, J. F. Watchers on the Longships, Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., Redhill, Surrey, 1899 and 1948.
Coles, A. North Brittany Pilot, Adlard Coles Ltd., London W1, 1973. ISBN 0-2299-7484-8.
Douglass, J. N. On the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, Minutes of Proceedings of the Inst. Civ. Eng., : 214-227, 1871.
Douglass, J. N. The Wolf Rock Lighthouse, Minutes of Proceedings of the Inst. Civ. Eng., : 1-28, 1871.
Douglass, J. N. The Electric Light Applied to Lighthouse Illumination, 57(1639): 77-165, 1879.
Douglass, W. T. The New Eddystone Lighthouse, 75(1960): 20-60, 1884.
Douglass, J. N. Beacon Lights and Fog Signals, : 425-444, 1889.
Douglass, J. N. The Bishop Rock Lighthouses, : 207-244, 1892.
Emmerson, G. S. The Stevensons: Pioneers of Coastal Lights (A supplement to the November 1969 issue of Industrial Archaeology), David and Charles, Newton Abbot, Devon, UK, 1969.
Faraday, M. On lighthouse Illumination: The Electric Light., Proc. Roy. Inst., 3: 220-3, 1960.
Feder, Kenneth L. A Village of Outcasts: Historical Archaeology and Documentary Research at the Lighthouse Site
Findlay, A. G. A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World, Richard Holmes Laurie, Fleet St., London, UK, 1862.
Fleming, Candace. Women of the Lights. James Watling, Illustrator.
Garland, R. Lighthouses, The Educational Supply Association Ltd., London, UK, 1958.
#Getting to Know about lighthouses, for A Colourmaster Publication, Photo Precision Ltd., St. Ives, Huntingdon, England, ca1975-1980.
Gower, E. Flamborough, The Dalesman Publishing Company Ltd., Lancaster, 1975 and 1983. ISBN 0-8520-6735-6.
Grosvenor, J. Trinity House, Staples Press, London, 1959.
Hale, S. L. Lighthouses and Lightships of East Kent, East Kent Maritime Trust, Ramsgate, UK, ca1984.
Harding, E. Hazel - or Perilpoint Lighthouse, Walter Scott Ltd., London, ca1910.
Hardy, W. J. Lighthouses: Their History and Romance, The Religious Tract Society, London, 1895.
Holmes, F. M. Stories of Lighthouses and Their Builders in the book, Celebrated Mechanics and Their Achievements, S. W. Partridge and Co., London, 160, ca1920.
Jackson, Derrick. Lighthouses of England and Wales, including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, illustrated by the author, published by David and Charles (Holdings) Ltd., Newton Abbot, Devon, UK, 1975. Congress No. 75-18685; ISBN 0-7153-6902-4.
#John Smeaton FRS, Thomas Telford Ltd., P.O. Box 101, 26-34 Old Street, London, EC1P 1JH, 1981. ISBN 0-7277-0088-X.
Jones, Stephen. Harbor of Refuge, Being the Recreation of Four Seasons on an Offshore Lighthouse from the Authentic Journal of S. P. Jones, 1981. ISBN 0-3930-1417-7.
Jones, T. Stranded on the Longships, Merlin Books Ltd., Braunton, Devon, UK, 1991. ISBN 0-8630-3557-4.
Kerslake, K. The Eddystone: a Brief History of the Lighthouse, for Underhills, Plymouth, UK, 1977.
Langham, A. and M. Langham. Lundy, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, Devon, UK, 1970. SBN 7153-4861-2.
Larn, R. and C. Carter. Cornish Shipwrecks. The South Coast, Pan Books, London, 1973. ISBN 0-3302-3474-9.
Larn, R. Devon Shipwrecks, Pan Books, London, 1977. ISBN 0-3302-5167-8.
Lavelle, D. The Skellig Story, The O'Brien Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1976 and 1993. ISBN 0-8627-8295-3.
Lewis, W. J. Ceaseless Vigil: My Lonely Years in the Lighthouse service, published by George Harrop and Co. Ltd., London WC1, 1970. ISBN 0-245-50352-8. #Life of William Douglass, published privately, 1923.
Long, N. Lights of East Anglia, Terence Dalton Ltd., Lavenham, Suffolk, UK, 1983. ISBN 0-8613-8028-2.
MacGregor, A. A. The Bell Rock (where Ralph the Rover tore his hair, in the book, Islands By the Score (page 10), Michael Joseph, 1971.
MacGregor, A. A. The Isle of May, in Islands by the Score (page 18), Michael Joseph, 1971.
Mair, C. A Star for Seamen, John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., 50 Albemarle Street, London W1X 4BD, 1978. ISBN 0-7195-3394-5.
Majadlany, Frederick. The Eddystone Light, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1960.
Majdalany, Frederick. The Red Rocks of Eddystone, published by Longmans Green and Co. Ltd., London W1, 1959.
Masson, R. Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, W. & R. Chambers Ltd., Edinburgh, London, UK, 1923.
McCanch, N. A Lighthouse Notebook, Michael Joseph Ltd., 44 Bedford Square, London WC1, 1985. ISBN 0-7181-2445-6.
McCarron, K. Fort Perch Rock and the Defence of the Mersey, Merseyside Portfolios, 1&3 Grove Road, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside L42 3XS, UK, 1991. ISBN 0-9516-1291-3.
McCormick, W. H. The Modern Book of Lighthouses, A. and C. Black Ltd., London, 1936.
Mead, H. P. Trinity House, Sampson, Low, Marston and Co. Ltd., London, 1957.
Merrett, L. H. Smeaton's Tower and the Plymouth Breakwater, Graphmitre Ltd., Tavistock, Devon, UK, ca1980.
Montgomery, W. A. and M. S. Weightman. Grace Darling, M. S. Weightman, Seahouses, Northumberland, UK, 1981.
Mudd, D. Cornish Sea Lights, Bosinney Books, St. Teath, Bodmin, Cornwall, UK, 1978. ISBN 0-9064-5601-0.
Naish, John. Seamarks: Their History and Development, Stanford Maritime Ltd., 12-14 Long Acre, London WC2E 9LP, 1985. ISBN 0-5400-7309-1.
Navillus, C. H. The Eddystone Lighthouses and Their History, The Western Morning News Co. Ltd., Plymouth, ca1930.
#Nelson, T. and Sons. The Story of John Smeaton, London, 1877 and 1890.
Nicholson, C. Rock Lighthouses of Britain, Patrick Stephens Ltd., Cambridge, England, 1983. ISBN 0-8505-9655-6.
Nix, M. The Lighthouse, in the book, The Cruel Coast of North Devon (page 60), Badger Books, Bideford, North Devon, England, 1982. ISBN 0-9462-9001-6.
Noall, Cyril. Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks (Great Britain), published by D Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, Cornwall, 1968. ISBN 0-8515-3002-8.
Oppenheim, M. M. The Eddystone Lighthouses, in the book, The Maritime History of Devon (pages 96-105), The University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, 1968.
Ortzen, L. Trapped on a Burning Lighthouse: The Calf of Man, 1960, in the book, Famous lifeboat rescues (page 5), Arthur Barton Ltd., 1971.
Phillips, G. W. Lighthouse and Lightship, Robert Ross and Co. Ltd., London, ca1950.
#Pictures of Old Marsden, South Tyneside Libraries, Tyne and Wear, UK, first edn, 1991. ISBN 0-9066-1707-3.
Reed, O. The Story of Lighthouses, Lightships and Lifeboats, Wills and Hepworth Ltd, Loughborough, UK, 1968.
Sanderson, Robert The Four Eddystone Lighthouses, Penwell Ltd., Callington, Cornwall, UK, ca 1972.
Sharp, Eric W. Lighthouses of the Channel Islands, Toucan Press, Saravia, Rue des Monts, Delancey Park, St. Sampson, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK, 1979 and 1986, ISBN 0-8569-4173-5.
Skempton, A. W. John Smeaton FRS, Thomas Telford Ltd, London, UK, 1981. ISBN 0-7277-0088-X.
Smeaton, J. Remarks on the different temperature of the air at Eddystone from that observed at Plymouth between 7th. and 14th. July 1757, Proc. Roy. Soc., 52: 488-490, 1758.
Smeaton, J. A Narrative of the Building of the Eddystone Lighthouse., 1791.
Smiles, S. Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie, John Murray, London, 1904.
Smith, G. Shipwrecks of the Bristol Channel, Countryside Books, Newbury, UK, ca1910. ISBN 1-8530-6153-0.
Spry, E. An Account of the Case of a Man who Died of the Effects of the Fire at the Eddystone lighthouse., Proc. Roy. Soc., 49: 477-479, 1755.
Stevenson, R. L. Records of a Family of Engineers, in the book, Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Records of a Family of Engineers, Wiliam Heinemann, London, UK, 153-330, 1924.
Stevenson, R. ed, Bell Rock Lighthouse, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1931.
Stevenson, R. ed, English Lighthouse Tours, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., London, 1946.
Stevenson, D. Alan. The World's Lighthouses Before 1820, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1959.
Sutton-Jones, K. Pharos: The Lighthouse Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd., Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, 1985.
Talbot, F. A. Lightships and Lighthouses, William Heinemann, London, 1913.
Tarrant, M. Cornwall's Lighthouse Heritage, Twelveheads Press, Truro, Cornwall, UK, 1990. ISBN 0-9062-9420-7.
Tyndall. On the Electric Light, Minutes of Proceedings of the Inst. Civ. Eng., (Paper 3461): 4-13, 1879.
Weston, R. H. Letters and Important Documents Relative to the Eddystone Lighthouse selected by Robert Harcourt Weston from the Correspondance of the late Robert Weston, R. H. Weston, 143, 1811.
Woodman, R. Keepers of the Sea : A History of the Yachts and Tenders of Trinity House, Terence Dalton Ltd., Lavenham, Suffolk, UK, 1983. ISBN 0-8613-8018-5.
Woodman, R. A View from the Sea, Century Publishing Co. Ltd., 12-13 Greek St., London W1V 5LE, 1985. ISBN 0-7126-1024-3.
#The Lighthouse Literature Mission. The Lightkeeper, The Lighthouse Literature Mission, Belfast, Ireland, IV, 1911.
O'Dea, J. Safeguarding the Seafarer, State Service, 61, March, 78-9, 1981.
#Northern Lighthouses, for Trinity House of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, ca1975.
Dey, J. Out Skerries: An Island Community, The Shetland Times Ltd., Prince Alfred Street, Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, 1991. ISBN 0-9006-6274-3.
Martin, P. North Carr Lightship: A Maritime Experience, North Carr Preservation Group, Arbroath, Fife, ca1980.
Mason, J. The History of Trinity House of Leith, McKenzie Vincent, Glasgow, 1957.
Moberg, G. Stone Built. Orkney Photographs, Stromness Books and Prints, Stromness, UK, 1979.
Munro, R. W. Scottish Lighthouses, Thule Press, Stornaway, Lewis, Scotland, 1979. ISBN 0-9061-9132-7.
Stevenson, D. Life of Robert Stevenson, Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1878.
Stevenson, D. A. Ailsa Craig Lighthouse and Fog Signals, 89(2221): 297-303, 1887.
Wilson, B. The Lighthouses of Orkney, Stromness Museum, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, ca1975.
Hague, D. B. and R. Christie. Lighthouses: Their Architecture, History and Archaeology, Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, Wales, 1975. SBN 8-5088 324-5.
Jackson, Derrick. Lighthouses of England and Wales, including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, illustrated by the author, published by David and Charles (Holdings) Ltd., Newton Abbot, Devon, UK, 1975. Congress No. 75-18685; ISBN 0-7153-6902-4.
Roberts, E. G. They All Lived in Lighthouses, Gee and Son Ltd., Denbigh, Clwyd, Wales, 1984. ISBN 0-7074-0121-6.
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