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]

Dover Publications, Inc. Trade Paperback Used-Good Book has some fairly mild shelf wear, mostly around edges. Small crease on cover. Otherwise great shape. Book is bright, neat, and clean. Binding is tight and unworn. Pages are crisp.

ISBN10: 0486261220, ISBN13: 9780486261225, [publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY] Softcover Book has some fairly mild shelf wear, mostly around edges. Small crease on cover. Otherwise great shape. Book is bright, neat, and clean. Binding is tight and unworn. Pages are crisp.
[Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [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); ...

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

Dover Pubns, Date: 1989. Paperback. New. 448 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 1989. Dover Pubns ISBN 0486261220 9780486261225 [GB]

Dover Publications, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Dover Publications, Incorporated ISBN 0486261220 9780486261225 [US]

Dover Publications, Date: 1989-12-01. Paperback. Like New. 1989. Dover Publications ISBN 0486261220 9780486261225 [US]

Paperback. Very good. Dover, 1970, 224 pages+large photo section, trade paperback, tight and square, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear. ISBN 0486261220 9780486261225 [US]

Dover Publications, Date: 1989-12-01. paperback. Used:Good. 1989. Dover Publications ISBN 0486261220 9780486261225 [US]

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover. ISBN 0486261220 9780486261225 [US]

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Dover Publications, 12/1/Date: 1989 12:00:00 AM. Revised. Used - Like New. Used Like New, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. 1989. Dover Publications ISBN 0486261220 9780486261225 [US]