New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011. Hardcover. Small square quarto. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with illustrated jacket. 352 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. While cameo and intaglio portraits, other forms of deluxe jewelry, medals, and miniatures featuring famous personalities have been surveyed, a historian and curator of..... More
Torino, Italy: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1984. Hardcover. Off-white/bluish boards with similar-colored and color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering on spine. 287 + [16] pp ads. An abundance of BW, a handful of color plates. Title continues: L'analisi critica, storica ed economica / The critical, historical and economic analysis. Text..... More
London, England: Goldsmiths' Company, 2022. Softcover. White wraps with gold text and color illustrations, French flaps inside both covers. (5) 6-119 pp. Features many color illustrations. Signed by one of the authors, Dora Thornton. From the outrageous cocktail rings of Andrew Grima and Ernest Blyth to the minimalist, engineered jewels..... More
Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art, 2014. Hardcover. White & illus. boards, 320 pp., many color illus. Text is in Japanese and English. Issued in conjunction with a 2014 exhibition of 350 of the 800 rings collected by Kanji Hashimoto in recent decades. "His rings chart the history of..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Hardcover. grey cloth boards w/ debossed dolphin emblem & silver spine printing. 384 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. white, glossy pictorial dustjacket. A very nice, sharp & compact edition. Clean & bright pages. Beautifully illlustrated. More
Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2009. Hardcover. Grey cloth/boards; blind-stamp design/lettering. Slate-grey dj with white lettering and image of Scottish brooch. Mylar cover. Through the centuries, the distinctive character of Scottish jewelry has enchanted collectors from around the world. In the mid-nineteenth century, demand for the Highland specialties was so high..... More
Boston: Chronicle Books, 2000. First. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards, silver lettering. Metallic plum DJ with illus. of diamond tiara. 191 pp. 75+ color plates. Text by Diana Scarbisbrick. Lovely illustrations. This book served as the exhibition catalogue for an exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine arts entitled "Crowning Glories: Two..... More
London: Tate Publishing, 1995. Softcover. Glossy color-illustrated softcover with white lettering. 104 pp. Color illustrations. Only a fraction of the jewels made for the Tudor and Jacobean courts have survived, and it is through the evidence of portrait painting and artists' designs that their splendour and variety can be assessed..... More
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Beige and color-illustrated wraps, black lettering on spine. 100 pp. 8 color plates + numerous BW illustrations. Article entitled Sir John Evans and Charles Drury Fortnum: Two Victorian Ring Connoisseurs and Their Collections by Diana Scarisbrick. Published by Lund Humphries London for The..... More
