Archive - General books on jewellery

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Jewellery - general

Gioielli di Praga dal Rinascimento all'Art Deco.

Exhibition catalogue.

La Rinascente, Milan, 1993.

201 pages, paperback, Italian.

Published in association with an exhibition at La Rinascente, Milan.

Tesori e Gioielli della Collezione del Petit Palais di Parigi.

Exhibition catalogue.

Regione Piemonte, 2010.

167 pages, paperback, 21 x 30 cm, Italian.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Villa Scalcabarozzi, Valenza.

Imperial Splendours. The art of jewellery since the 18th century.

Exhibition catalogue.

The Forbidden City Publishing House, 2017, ¥99.

205 pages, paperback, 19.5 x 19 cm, Chinese, English.

ISBN: 978-7513409773.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Palace Museum, Beijing.

Gioielli. Moda, magia, sentimento.

Exhibition catalogue.

Mazzotta, 1986.

96 pages, paperback, 22.2 x 20.8 cm, Italian.

ISBN: 978-8820207106.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.

The story of jewelry: a popular account of the lure, lore, science and value of gems and noble metals in the modern world.

Marcus Baerwald, Tom Mahoney.

Abelard-Schuman, 1960.

222 pages, hardback, 9.1 x 6.6 inches.

Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery.

John Benjamin [SJH member].

Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 1999, £12.50.

192 pages, hardback, 24 x 20.6 cm.

ISBN 978-1851494071

Understanding Jewelry.

David Bennett, Daniela Mascetti.

Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 2000).

425 pages, hardback, 8.8 x 11 inches.

ISBN 978-1851493616.

Inspired by tradition: Gems and jewelry from a private collection.

Claire V. Bersani.

Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1987.

47 pages, paperback, 11 x 8.4 inches.

ISBN 978-0911886337

Gioielli. Le guide del Museo Poldi Pezzoli di Milano.

Maria Teresa Balboni Brizza, Annalisa Zanni.

Umberto Allemandi, Turin, 1996, Italian.

110 pages, hardback. ISBN 978-8842206651

Gioiello &…, Jewellery &….

Alba Cappellieri.

Marsilio, 2014, €40.

9 vols of 32 pages each, paperback, 15 x 19 cm.

Published separately in Italian and English.

ISBN: 978-8831720540 (Italian set)

These 9 books, published as a boxed set or available individually at €5 each, contain the texts and illustrations of the videos which accompany the 9 sections of the current permanent exhibition at the Museo del Gioielli at Vicenza. Each is written by the guest curator of the relevant section: Aldo Bakker, Graziella Folchini Grassetto, Franco Cologni, Gijs Bakker, Bianca Cappello (SJH member), Deanna Farneti and Stefano Papi (SJH member).

Bijoux.

Deanna Farneti Cera.

24 Ore Cultura s.r.l., Milan, 2010. £15.95.

379 pages, paperback.

ISBN 978-8871796093.

The Power of Love: Jewels, Romance and Eternity.

Beatriz Chadour Sampson.

Unicorn, 2018, £25.

160 pages, hardback, 22.2 x 26 cm.

ISBN: 978-1911604464

The History of Jewelry: Joseph Saidian & Sons.

Caroline Childers.

Rizzoli, 2018, $35.

176 pages, hardback, 9 x 11.2 inches.

ISBN: 978-0847865383

Les bijoux du classicisme à l'Art Déco.

Lydia-L. Dewiel.

Duculot, Paris, 1980.

160 pages, hardback, 13.5 x 20 cm, French.

ISBN 978-2801103142

Medusa : Bijoux et tabous.

Anne Dressen.

Paris Musées, 2017.

186 pages, hardback, 325 x 21.7 cm.

ISBN 978-2759603473.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris.

Jewellery | 17th to 20th Centuries.

Mairead Dunlevy.

National Museum of Ireland, 2001, €5.

74 pages, paperback, 21 x 15 cm.

ISBN 978-0901777904

Generations of Jewelry.

Gerhart Egger.

Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1997.

220 pages, hardback, 9.5 x 12.5 inches.

ISBN 978-0887401244

25000 Jahre Schmuck.

Maren Eichhorn-Johannsen.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Prestel Verlag, 2013, €59.

384 pages, 31.6 x 24.8 cm, German.

ISBN: 978-3791352961

25,000 Years of Jewelry.

English-language version of the above, £45.

ISBN: 978-3791352978

Le Trésor de Naples: Les joyaux de San Gennaro.

Giuseppe Galasso, Vincenzo De Gregorio.

Gallimard, 2014, €35.

186 pages, paperback, 22.2 x 28.5 cm, French.

ISBN: 978-2070144792

Jewelry in America, 1600-1900.

Martha Gandy Fales.

Antique Collectors' Club, 1995.

448 pages, hardback, 11.1 x 8.9 inches.

ISBN: 978-1851492237

"Charivari". Skizzen aus der Idarer Schmuckstein - Industrie.

Ernst Falz.

Idar-Oberstein Eigenverlag 1950.

147 pages, hardback.

Under Another Light: Jewels and Ornaments. Gianfranco Ferré.

Gianfranco Ferré.

Skira Editore, 2018, £49.

234 pages, paperback, 16.5 x 29.8 cm, English, Italian.

ISBN: 978-8857236698

Published in association with an exhibition at the Sala del Senato in the Palazzo Madama in Turin.

Il libro dei gioielli. Dal Settecento a oggi.

Antonia Abbattista Finocchiaro.

Antique Collectors' Club, 1995.

192 pages, hardback, Italian.

ISBN: 978-8841211663

Genialità nel gioiello.

Tiziana Serretta Fiorentino.

Novecento, 1996.

180 pages, paperback, 32.5 x 25 cm, Italian.

ISBN: 978-8837303167

The Jewelry Collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

Dominique Forest.

Ucad, 2008, €20.99.

36 pages, hardback, 29.6 x 21.2 cm. ISBN: 978-2901422709

English version of the 2004 French-language ‘Collection de bijoux du Musée de l'Art Décoratif’, ISBN: 978-2901422716.

Looking at Jewelry: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques.

Susanne Gänsicke, Yvonne J. Markowitz.

J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019, $19.95.

128 pages, paperback, 6.2 x 9.2 inches.

ISBN: 978-1606065990

Alltagstauglich!: Schmuck von Jugendstil bis Art déco - Die Sammlung Ratz-Coradazzi.

Wolfgang Glüber.

Schnell und Steiner, 2019, €36.

272 pages, hardback, 21.5 x 28.7 cm, German.

ISBN: 978-3795434182.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt.

Antique Jewelry : A Practical And Passionate Guide.

Rose Leiman Goldemberg.

Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1976

160 pages, paperback, 7 x 10 inches.

ISBN: 978-0517526538

Coveted: Art and Innovation in High Jewelry.

Melanie Grant.

Phaidon Press, 2020, $89.95.

208 pages, hardback, 9.69 x 12.01 inches

ISBN: 978-1838661496

Gioielli e legature. Artisti del XX secolo.

G. Foschini Grassetto.

L'Orafo Italiano, 1990.

197 pages, hardback, 31 x 25 cm, Italian.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

Smalti e gioielli dal XV al XIX secolo.

Yvonne Hackenbroch.

Museo nazionale del Bargello, Florence, 1986.

84 pages, hardback, 22 cm, Italian.

Published in association with an exhibition at the Bargello museum.

Schmuck aus drei Jahrtausenden: Sammlung Hanns-Ulrich Haedeke.

Hanns Ulrich Haedeke.

Rheinland-Verlag, 2000.

332 pages, turtleback, 27.8 x 23.6 cm, German.

ISBN: 978-3792717868.

“The thing of mine I have loved the best”: Meaningful Jewels.

Cynthia Hahn, Beatriz Chadour-Sampson (SJH member).

Les Enluminures, 2018, $50.

372 pages, paperback, 23 x 16 cm.

ISBN: 978-0997184266

Parures. Des Temps anciens, des peuples lointains.

Edith Hoffmann, Barbara Treide.

Paris, Aux Quais de Paris, 1977.

167 pages, hardback, 25 x 28 cm, French.

Antiker Gold- und Silberschmuck.

Herbert Hoffmann, Vera von Claer.

Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1968.

246 pages, paperback, German.

Jewelry: The Body Transformed.

Melanie Holcomb, Kim Benzel.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018, $50.

272 pages, hardback, 9 x 10 inches.

ISBN: 978-1588396501

Bijoux: Le corps sublimé.

Freanch-language version, Citadelles et Mazenod, 2018, €69.

ISBN: 978-2850887826

Published in association with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Jewelry.

Petra Hölscher.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2020, £50.

576 pages, hardback, 21 x 27.3 cm, English, German.

ISBN: 978-3897905856

Jewellery from the Hull Grundy Collection: An illustrated account of the collection of 18th and 19th century jewellery presented to Kenwood by Mrs John Hull Grundy, 1975-6.

Iveagh Bequest.

Greater London Council, 1975.

18 pages, paperback.

ISBN: 978-0716808503

Le petit roman des bijoux.

Claudette Joannis.

Editions du Rocher, 2011, €10.10.

128 pages, hardback, 15.4 x 12.8 cm, French.

ISBN: 978-2268070636.

Brief introduction to the symbolism and romance of jewellery.

Keepsakes and Treasures: Stories from Historic New England's Jewelry Collection.

Laura E. Johnson.

Historic New England, 2016, $19.95.

64 pages, paperback, 9.8 x 7.9 inches.

ISBN: 978-0989059831

Published in association with an exhibition at the Eustis Estate, Milton, Massachusetts.

Masterpieces of European Jewellery from the 16th to 19th Centuries in the Hermitage Collection.

Olga Kostyuk, translated by David Hicks.

State Hermitage, 2010. $140.

ISBN: 978-5935723675.

A Book of Jewelry.

Vladislav Kuzel.

Artia Prague, 1962.

104 pages, hardback.

Glanz und Zauber des Schmucks. Eine Kulturgeschichte.

Ingrid Kuntzsch.

Verlag Bongers, Leipzig, 1978.

227 pages, hardback.

Smycken = Jewellery.

Helena Lindroth.

Nordiska Museets Förlag, Stockholm, 2012, 109 kr.

111 pages, paperback, 16 x 24 cm, Swedish, English. ISBN: 978-9171085542

Published to accompany the re-display of the Nordiska Museet’s collection of jewellery.

“Boys Get Skulls, Girls Get Butterflies”.

Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Koln (MAKK).

Distanz Publishing, 2013, €64.

176 pages, hardback, 28.8 x 22.8 cm, English, German.

ISBN: 978-3954760312

Published to accompany an exhibition at MAKK, Cologne.

Artful Adornments: Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts.

Yvonne J Markowitz.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2011. £40.

192 pages, hardback, 9.4 x 10.3 inches.

ISBN 978-0878467686.

Figures & Faces: The Art Of Jewelry.

Patrick Mauriès, Évelyne Possémé.

Thames & Hudson, 2018, €24.

128 pages, hardback, 18 x 24.9 cm.

ISBN: 978-0500021811

Metropolitan Jewelry .

Sophie McConnell.

Bulfinch Press, 1991.

112 pages, hardback, 9.3 x 11.3 inches .

ISBN: 978-0821218778

The Triumph of Love: Jewelry 1530-1930.

Geoffrey C. Munn.

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1993.

104 pages, hardback, 23.5 x 24.8 cm.

ISBN: 978-0500236611

Treasures and Trinkets: Jewellery in London from Pre-Roman Times to the 1930's.

Tessa Murdoch.

Museum of London, 1991.

208 pages, paperback, 26.2 x 19.6 cm.

ISBN: 978-0904818482

Schmuckstücke. Antike bis Jugendstil.

Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt am Main

Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt am Main, 1991.

90 pages, paperback, 24 x 20 cm, German.

ISBN: 978-3882700541

Jewelry: From Pearls to Platinum to Plastic.

Newark Museum.

Newark Museum, 2017, $29.95.

80 pages, paperback, 8 x 10 inches.

ISBN: 978-0932828453

Published in association with an exhibition at the Newark Museum.

Schmuckismus.

Angelika Nollert.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers Stuttgart, 2019, £28.

160 pages, Swiss binding, 17 x 23 cm, English, German.

ISBN 978-3897905511.

Published in association with an exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Munich.

ThinkingJewellery Two.

Wilhelm Lindemann, Theo Smeets.

Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2020, £17.

184 pages, paperback, 13.9 x 21.8 cm.

ISBN: 978-3897905399

Based on lectures from the 2017 symposium of the same name at the Trier University of Applied Sciences/Campus Idar-Oberstein.

Jewellery. The Intelligent Layman's Guide.

Jack Ogden.

The Intelligent Layman publishers Ltd, 2006.

264 pages, hardback, 25.6 x 2.6 cm.

ISBN: 978-0947798352

Il linguaggio dei gioielli. Il significato nascosto e ritrovato dell'eterna arte dell'ornamento dalla A alla Z.

Maria Rosaria Omaggio.

Zelig, 2001.

206 pages, paperback.

ISBN: 978-8887291216

Spectacular. Gems and Jewelry from the Merriweather Post Collection.

Liana Paredes.

Published by GILES in assocation with Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, 2017, $39.95.

200 pages, hardback, 9.5 x 10.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-1907804922

Published in association with an exhibition at the Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Washington DC.

Mille et un carats. Joyaux, perles et autres pierreries qui ont fait l'Histoire.

Vivianne Perret.

Vuibert, 2012, €19.50.

288 pages, paperback, 21.8 x 15 cm, French.

ISBN: 978-2311008838

Jewels and Jewellery.

Clare Phillips.

V&A Publishing/Tokyo Bijutsu Co. Ltd, 2014, ¥3200.

176 pages, paperback (with dust jacket), 27 x 22 cm, Japanese.

ISBN: 978-4808709679. JHT 20

Jewels & Jewellery.

Clare Phillips.

Thames and Hudson, 2019, £24.95.

224 pages, paperback, 20.8 x 29.2 cm.

ISBN: 978-0500480342.

Updated and enlarged version of 2008 book.

Bijoux et Beautés.

Michel Rachline.

Olivier Orban, 1987.

90 pages, hardback, 15 x 21.5 cm.

ISBN: 2555987991

Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World.

Aja Raden.

Ecco Press, 2015, $27.99.

368 pages, hardback, 6 x 9 inches.

ISBN: 978-0062334695

The Art of Jewelry, 1450-1650.

Donald F. Rowe.

The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, 1975.

72 pages, paperback, 7.75 x 10.25 inches.

Published in association with an exhibition at Chicago.

Le grand frisson : le Bijou de sentiment de la Renaissance à nos jours.

Diana Scarisbrick (SJH member).

Textuel, 2008, €45.70.

431 pages, hardback, 21.8 x 15.8 cm, French.

ISBN: 978-2845973084

Jewellery in Britain 1066-1837.

Diana Scarisbrick.

Michael Russell Publishing Ltd, Norwich, United Kingdom, 1994.

431 pages, hardback, 22 x 28 cm.

ISBN: 978-0859551908

Jewellery from Renaissance to Art Deco 1540-1940.

Diana Scarisbrick, Norio Ohashi.

The Nishinippon shinbun-sha, Fukuoka, 2003.

332 pages, softback, 21.8 x 28.7 cm, Japanese.

Published in association with an exhibition at Tokyo, Fukuoka, Nagoya and Kyoto.

25 Reasons why to wear Jewellery.

Barbara Schmidt.

Author, 2018, €25.

188 pages, paperback.

ISBN: 978-3982051215

25 Gründe Schmuck zu tragen

German-language version, ISBN: 978-3982051208

Le goût des bijoux : Du Moyen-Age aux années Art Déco.

Lydwine Scordia.

Librairie Académique Perrin, 2013, €35.

234 pages, hardback, 31.8 x 23.2 cm, French.

ISBN: 978-2262040802

Mon bijou. Geschichte und Geschichten um Schmuck.

Ulla Stöver.

Chemiewerk, Homburg, 1973.

72 pages, hardback, 20 cm, German.

ISBN: 978-3521040496

Eva's Beauty Case - Schmuck und Styling im Spiegel der Zeiten.

Gabriele Uelsberg.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2016, €29.90.

168 Pages, hardback, 24 x 28 cm, German.

ISBN: 978-3777425887

Published in association with an exhibition at the LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn.

«Delle mie gioie ed oggetti d'oro...». Le mode e gli affetti nei gioielli dei conti Coronini Cronberg di Gorizia.

C. B. Venuti, M. M. Pascoletti.

Fondazione Palazzo Coronini, 2012, €25.

184 pages, paperback, 21 x 26 cm, Italian.

ISBN: 978-8890254826

Published in associaton with an exhibition of jewellery from the collections of the Coronini Cronberg Counts at Gorizia.

Jewels That Made History: 100 Stones, Myths, and Legends.

Stellene Volandes.

Rizzoli, 2020, $45.

224 pages, hardback, 7 x 8.5 inches.

ISBN: 978-0847868544

Jewelry: Ancient To Modern.

Walters Art Gallery.

Studio, 1980.

255 pages, hardback, 20 x 20 inches.

ISBN: 978-0670406975

Les plus beaux bijoux de femmes joaillières.

Juliet Weir-de La Rochefoucauld (SJH member).

Editions La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2017, €85.

360 pages, hardback, 28.9 x 34.4 cm, French.

ISBN: 978-2884532082

The Art of Russian Jewellery: Nine Centuries of History.

Victoria Zhuravleva, Inna Kostina, Tatyana Muntian.

Moscow Kremlin State Museum and Khudozhnic I Kniga, 2004, $45.

174 pages, hardback.

ISBN: 978-5886781106

Practical

L' entretien et la réparation de bijoux: Comment nettoyer, réparer et restaurer vos bijoux.

David Mcloughlin.

Eyrolles, 2013, €35.

192 pages, hardback, 28 x 22 cm, French.

ISBN: 978-2212137064

Detailed instructions on how to identify, look after and repair antique jewellery.