The
Stirling Engine Manual
Wow! No other way to say it. Just plain, wow!
Rizzo's book "Modelling Stirling and Hot Air Engines" appeared in England in 1985. This is a newly formatted updated version of his original title.
He says: "It is still a book for beginners to the hobby of building Stirling Engines...
The first part of the book covers the history of the engine....
The second part... deals with projects well within the capabilities of the beginner or a home engineer with modest workshop facilities. This section covers a range of examples from small, uncomplicated but highly instructive and entertaining engines, to two types of Stirling engines not previously covered, a Low Temperature Differential Stirling Engine, and a Pressurised Stirling Engine...
[I believe] this is an engine that still
has scope for further development; secondly that the home engineer has
much to offer in its development... thirdly, this need not be an expesnive
hobby, since a fair amount of materials used can be obtained cheaply or
from scrap yards..." 
Many people contributed to the contents of this book including Andy Ross, James Senft, Roy Darlington, Richard White, and a number of others.
You get detailed text and great illustrations. You don't get
dimensioned plans, but you do get photos, side elevation drawings, front elevations,
tables of all important dimensions and specifications, and more. I've not
seen more practical nuts-and-bolts hands-on how-to on Stirling engines in
one place before. This beaut comes from 
England
and because of exchange rates, prices are a bit high and can vary. But you
get a beautiful harcover book loaded with rare info. It's worth having. All
I can say is Wow!
8 x 11-1/2 hardcover 183 pages wall-to-wall illustrations and four pages of color photos
No. 91375 ---- not available at this time
CONTENTS:
What is a Stirling Cycle engine? --- How the "Closed
Cycle" Hot Air Engine works --- The Regenerator --- Heating and Cooling ---
Pressurisation --- Designing and Building model Stirling engines --- Workshop
Practice --- Starting and Running an engine --- Of Models and Modelling ---
How to Construct "Dolly" I --- How to Construct "Dolly II" --- How to Construct
"DOP-YU", a double acting Stirling Engine --- How to Construct "Lolly" ---
How to Construct "Lolly II", a V-type engine --- How to Construct "Sturdy"
--- How to Construct "Mariner", a twin cylinder Stirling engine --- The Ericsson
Hot Air Pumping engines --- How to Construct "Prova II", a competition type
co-axial Stirling engine --- How to Construct "Sunspot", a solar-powered Stirling
engine --- How to Construct "Dyna", a demonstration engine --- Low Temperature
Differential & Ringbom Stirling engines --- How to Construct "Tuba" --- How
to Measure Performance
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