Understanding Jewellery
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club, 2003. Revised edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 494pp. Original gray cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket, gilt and red lettering plus image on spine. Color-illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Color vignette on title page. Beautifully illustrated with an abundance of color photographs of exquisite jewelry throughout, very few b/w.
The ten chapters represent the jewelry design from the late 18th century to the year 2000, each chapter covering 20 years of jewelry design. The work identifies and dates the jewelry presented, covers gemstones, including origin and testing methods used to identify precious and semiprecious stones, assess quality and detect fakes. Bibliography and index at rear. Very light wear along top and bottom edges of dustjacket. Else minor wear. Near fine condition. Item #55998
ISBN: 1851494308
Price: $175.00