Archive - Jewellery books by Material - Metallic
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.
Gold
Philippine Ancestral Gold.
NUS Press, 2012, $98.
300 pages, hardback or paperback, 11.3 x 9.5 inches.
ISBN: 978-9971696528
Gold: Power and Allure.
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, 2012. £20.00. 168 pages, hardback, 24.2 x 16.8 cm, 100 colour illus. ISBN: 9780907814863.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at Goldsmiths’ Hall.
In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns.
Princeton University Press, 2007. $49.95. 352 pages, 23.6 x 16.3 cm. ISBN: 9780691126975.
The Gold of Sakdrisi: Man's first gold mining enterprise.
VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden/Westfalen, 2016, €19.80.
174 pages, hardback, 17.4 x 24.9 cm, English, Georgian.
ISBN: 978-3867570114
A publication of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Socio-Aesthetical Aspects of Gold Jewellery: An Anthropological Analysis.
LAP (Lambert Academic Publishing), Pakistan, 2012. £41. 84 pages, paperback, 22 x 15 cm. ISBN: 9783848422470.
Gold.
The British Museum Press, 2009. £9.99 ISBN 978071415076. JHT 7
Silver
Silver.
The British Museum Press, 2009. £9.99 ISBN 9780714118154. JHT 7
La platería en la Colección Mascort. Los artífices y sus obras. Siglos XIV-XIX.
Fundació Mascort, 2022, €85.
608 pages, hardback, 25 x 30 cm, Catalan.
ISBN: 978-8409408979
Published in association with an exhibition at the Fundació Mascort, Girona
Other metals
Cut Steel and Berlin Iron Jewellery.
Adams & Dart, 1971. €25.00.
96 pages, hardback, 21.3 x 16.8 cm.
ISBN 978-0239000699
Good as Gold. Alternative Materials in American Jewelry.
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981.
32 pages, paperback.
ISBN 978-0865280137
Aluminium adorned.
Katlijk, Heerenveen, Netherlands, 2010. €25.00.
84 pages, hardback, English, Dutch.
Catalogue of an exhibition at Heerenveen, The Netherlands on the use of Aluminium in African Art and Adornment from the collection of the author.
Techniques
Da un filo d’argento… L’arte della filigrana in Ampezzo.
Edizioni ULd’A, 2019, €20.
112 pages, hardback, 29 x 23 cm.
No ISBN no.
Medieval Goldsmiths.
British Museum Press, 2011. £9.99.
ISBN: 978-0714128238.
Gold and Silversmithing in Western Australia: A History
University of Western Australia Publishing, 2010. $89.95. ISBN 9781921401435. JHT 12
La saldatura nell'oreficeria antica.
ed. Kappa, 2008, €15.99.
180 pages, paperback, 23.8 x 17 cm, Italian.
ISBN: 978-8878909427
Researches into soldering techniques in ancient jewellery and metalwork.
Gold Jewelry: Craft, Style, Meaning from Mycenae to Constantinopolis.
Institut Superieur d'Archaeologie et d'Histoire De l'art, College Erasme (Louvain-la-Neuve), 1983.
227 pages, paperback, quarto.
ISBN: 978-0933519138
Jewelry Technology in the Ancient & Medieval World.
Brynmorgen Press, 2024, £60.
428 pages, hardback, 22 x 26 cm.
ISBN: 978-1630850142. JSOR 2024.2
Schmuck. Bildführer. Kunsthandwerklicher. Techniken. Heft 2.
Köln: Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 1981.
40 pages, ppaperback, 23.5 x 16.5 cm, German.
Legacy: Jewelry Techniques of West Africa.
Brynmorgen Press, 2014.
232 pages, hardback, 26.7 x 23.1 cm.
ISBN: 978-1929565528
Tsodilo Jewellery: Metal Work from Northern Botswana.
University of Cape Town Press, 1998.
124 pages, paperback, 20 x 28 cm.
ISBN: 978-0799215854.
Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London: Their Lives and Their Marks.
Boydell & Brewer, 2017, £125.
724 pages, hardback, 2.1 x 2.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-1783272389
Techniques des ors antiques: La bijouterie ibérique du VIIe au IVe siècle.
Picard, 1990.
646 pages in 2 vols, paperback, 21.5 x 31.3 cm, French.
ISBN: 978-2708404052.
Etruscan Granulation.
Brynmorgen Press, 2010.
96 pages, paperback, 9.4 x 6.6 inches.
ISBN: 978-1929565368.
Les Presses Solbrig-Platschick appliquées à la Bijouterie d'Art.
C. Ash, Sons & Co. Ltd, Paris, undated, ca. 1900.
102 pages, hardback, 14 x 21 cm.
Design and Techniques in Early Medieval Celtic Metalwork.
Pindar Press, 2024, £150.
580 pages, hardback, 24 x 17 cm.
ISBN: 978-1904597339. JSOR 2024.1
Enamelling
Email - Enamel. Schmuck und Gerät - Jewelery and Vessels.
Hanau Gesellschaft für Goldschmiede, 1998.
101 pages, hardback, German, English.
Published in association with an exhibition at Hanau, Hamburg, Dormagen, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Munich
Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett.
Hudson Hills Press, 2008. $50.
144 pages, hardback, 10.3 x 10.3 inches.
ISBN: 978-15559
Карл Фаберже и Федор Рюкерт. Шедевры русской эмали.
Carl Fabergé & Feodor Rückert. Masterpieces of Russian Enamel.
Moscow: Federal State-Budget Cultural Institution, 2020, 3,000 RUB.
400 pages, hardback, Russian with English captions.
Published in association with an exhibition at the Kremlin, Moscow.
In The Garden [20th-century enamel].
Kashiwa bookstore Matsubara, 2009.
1686 pages, hardback, 21.4 x 16.2 cm, Japanese.
ISBN: 978-4877901141
Northern Lights: The beauty of the Forgotten Scandinavian Enamel Jewelry Artisans.
Lois Olson, Dwight Olson.
Dwight and Lois Olson. 2019, $175.
342 pages, hardback, 8.3 x 10.8 inches.
ISBN: 978-0578444390
Handcrafted Indian Enamel Jewellery.
Lustre Press/Roli Books, 2004.
144 pages, hardback, 22.9 x 22.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-8174362476
Museo d’Arte Applicate - Smalti.
Electa, Milan, 1985.
192 pages, hardback, 25 x 25 cm, Italian.
ISBN: 978-8843511853
Marks
Antwerpse goud- en zilvermerken 1456-1798.
DIVA Antwerp, 2023, €59.
200 pages, hardback, size, Dutch.ISBN: 978-9078487227
ISBN: 978-9078487227
French Precious Metal Hallmarks from 1789 to date.
Osprey Paris, 2024, €64.
192 pages, hardback, 15.5 x 21.7 cm.
ISBN 978-2957637638
English language version of the French original published earlier this year with English pdf.
Trade-Marks of the Jewelry and Kindred Trades: Being an Extensive Collection of Illustrations and Representations of the Marks ... Used by Manufacturers…
Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2011, $29.75.
300 pages, paperback, 24.6 x 18.9 cm. ISBN: 978-1241080310.
Collection of extracts from Legal Treatises, 1800-1926, Trials 1600-1926, and other primary legal sources.
Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London: Their Lives and Their Marks.
Boydell & Brewer, 2017, £125.
724 pages, hardback, 2.1 x 2.9 cm.
ISBN: 978-1783272389
Dictionnaire des joailliers, bijoutiers et orfèvres en France, de 1850 à nos jours.
L’École des Arts Joailliers, 2022, €650.
2400 + 1056 pages, 2 vols, hardback in slip case, 14 x 20.5 cm.