ISBN10: 0486261220, ISBN13: 9780486261225, [publisher: Dover Pubns] Softcover 448 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0486261220, ISBN13: 9780486261225, [publisher: Dover Pubns] Softcover 448 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0486261220, ISBN13: 9780486261225, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York] Softcover Paperback. Superb sourcebook of rare ornamentation includes meticulously detailed narrative and 400 illustrations depicting priceless brooches, necklaces, clasps, gold padlock, reliquary pendants, much more. The history of jewelry has closely paralleled the history of mankind. Used as amulets to protect against harm and worn for ceremonial occasions, jewels also signaled wealth, power, and position. This engrossing scholarly study by a noted English antiquarian offers a splendid account of jewellery styles over a 700-year period - from the early Middle Ages and Gothic period, through the Renaissance as well as the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on a number of vital sources - museums and private collections, evidence given by portrait painters, surviving designs for jewels and others - the author gives us not only a comprehensive chronicle of the jewels themselves but also their relation to costume and fashion and their reflection of changing social values. Enhancing the meticulously detailed narrative are 400 photographs and illustrations depicting, among scores of other pieces, a gold heart-shaped brooch inscribed with "You are my earthly joy," dating from the fifteenth century; a gold brooch set with sapphires, emeralds, and pearls; a diamond and topaz necklace (c. 1760); a gold padlock, set with cornelian and pearls (c. 1800); ...

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Dover Publications, Inc. Trade Paperback Used-Good Spine with light wear along edges, creased in middle; otherwise, very nice, clean, tight copy free of any marks.

Dover Publications, Incorporated, Date: 1989. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1989. Dover Publications, Incorporated ISBN 0486261220 9780486261225 [US]