Publications archive - by Use
The following titles have been noted by Jewellery History Today. Titles with a reference to JHT at the end are reviewed in that issue. To read the review (members only), click here.
Engraved gems
Ancient Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen.
Royal Collection Publications, London, 2008. £95. ISBN 9781902163475. JHT 6
Gem engraving in Britain from Antiquity to the Present, with a catalogue of the British engraved gems in The State Hermitage Museum.
The Beazley Archive, Oxford 2010, £65. ISBN 9781903767122. JHT 9
The Marlborough Gems: Formerly at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.
Oxford University Press, 2009. £175. ISBN 9780199237517. JHT 8
Armour
Fashion and Armour in Renaissance Europe.
V&A Publications, 2009. £19.99. ISBN 9781851775811
Beads
Worldwide History of Beads: Ancient, Ethnic, Contemporary.
Thames & Hudson, 2010. £39.95 ISBN 97 80500515006. JHT 8
Medals
British Commemorative Medals and Their Values
Spink and Son Ltd, London 2010. £75. ISBN 978-1-907427-06-0 JHT 11
Rings
Towards an Art History of Medieval Rings.
London, 2007. £20. ISBN 9781903470640. JHT 5
Bagues Mérovingiennes: Gaule du Nord.
Les Chevaulégers, Paris, 2008. €48. ISBN 9782916996080. JHT 6
Watches
How the Watch Was Worn: A Fashion for 500 Years.
Antique Collectors’ Club, 2010. £45. ISBN 9781851496372. JHT 9
By material - non-metallic
Jewellery from Nature: amber, coral, horn, ivory, pearls, shell, tortoiseshell, wood, exotica.
Thames and Hudson, October 2010. £24.95. ISBN 9780500515334.
Amber: Jewelry, Art, and Science.
Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2009. £24.95. ISBN: 978-0764331688.
Pearls
Qatar Museum Authority/Skira, 2010. $85. ISBN 978-8857200880. JHT 11
by material - metallic
Silver.
The British Museum Press, 2009. £9.99 ISBN 9780714118154. JHT 7
Gold.
The British Museum Press, 2009. £9.99 ISBN 978071415076. JHT 7