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A history of jewellery, 1100-1870 / Joan Evans.
LIBRA NK7306 .E8 1989 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Joan, 1893-1977.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewelry--History.
- Jewelry.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages, 192 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover, 1989.
- Summary:
- Superb sourcebook of rare ornamentation includes meticulously detailed narrative and 400 illustrations depicting priceless brooches, necklaces, clasps, gold padlock, reliquary pendants, much more.
- Contents:
- The early middle ages
- The Gothic period
- The later middle ages
- The early Renaissance
- The later Renaissance
- The seventeenth century
- The eighteenth century
- 1789-1870
- [Plates].
- Notes:
- "Unabridged republication of the work published in 1970 by Faber & Faber, London, England, and Boston Book and Art, Boston, Mass."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200).
- ISBN:
- 0486261220
- 9780486261225
- OCLC:
- 19920020
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- Publisher description
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