1970 A History of Jewellery 1100-1870

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Second edition, revised and reset. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, one hundred and ninety-two monochromatic plates, and thirty-five in-text figures. Collated complete. A history of jewellery across Europe from mediaeval times into the middle of the nineteenth century. Dealing with art and history with reference to a vast wealth of material and sources. Written by Dame Joan Evans, a British historian of French and English medieval art, specialising in Early Modern and medieval jewellery. Her personal notable collection was bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.