Carol Andrews, Ancient Egyptian Jewellery

1998 British Museum Press, London. ISBN 0-7141-1901-6
Web www.britishmuseum.co.uk

Vivienne Becker, Antique and 20th-Century Jewellery

1980, NAG Press, London. ISBN No.0-7198-0171-0


Vivienne Becker, Art Nouveau Jewelry

1985, Thames & Hudson, London.
Web www.thamesandhudson.com


Anderson J. Black, A History of Jewels

1974, Orbis Publishing Ltd, London. ISBN No.0-85613-389-2


John Booth, The Art of Fabergé

Good biography of Fabergé, with excellent black and white and colour plates of many of his masterpieces.

1990, Bloomsbury Press, London. ISBN No.0-7475-0602-7


Shirley Bury, Jewellery 1789-1910: The International Era

1991, The Antique Collectors' Club, England. ISBN No.1-85-49-104X


Barbara Cartlidge, Twentieth-century Jewelry

1985, Harry N. Abrans Incorporated, New York. ISBN No.0-8109-1685-1


Joan Evans, A History of Jewellery 1100-1870

1953, Faber & Faber, London. ISBN No.0 571 04693 2


Timothy F. Garrard, Gold of Africa: Jewellery and Ornaments from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Senegal.

Excellently illustrated book on the developing tradition of gold ornaments in West Africa over the last one thousand years. Pictures based on the Barbier-Mueller Collection in Geneva.

Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-7913 0914 5 (English edition); 3 7913 0913 7 (German edition).


Charlotte Gere & Geoffrey Munn, Artists' Jewellery Pre-Raphaelite to Arts & Crafts

1989, Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, England. ISBN No.1-85149-024 8


Guido Gregorietti, Jewellery Through the Ages

Elegant and brilliantly illustrated book by the director of Museo Poldi-Pezzoli in Milan; over 200 pictures in colour.

1970, Paul Hamlyn, London. 1969, Original Italian edition, Arnoldo Mondadori, Milan. ISBN No.0-6002-1203


G. von Habsburg-Lothringen & A. von Sododkoff, Fabergé: Court Jeweller to the Tsars

Comprehensive illustrations of most of his masterpieces, along with short text, including good explanation of his technical achievements in gold.

1979, Studio Vista, Christie's, London. ISBN 0-2897-0861-3


Peter Hinks, Twentieth Century British Jewellery 1900-1980

1993, Faber & Faber, London. ISBN No.0 571 10801 6


Peter Hinks, Nineteenth Century Jewellery

1985, Faber & Faber, London. ISBN 0-571-10650-1


Graham Hughes, The Art of Jewellery
Beautifully illustrated book by the Art Director of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in London surveying the craft and creation of great jewellery.

1972, Studio Vista Publishers, London. ISBN No.0-907408-30-3


Ilias Lalounis, Metamorphoses

1984, Ilias Lalounis, Greece.


John Loring, Tiffany's 20th Century

1997, Harry N. Abrans Incorporated, New York. ISBN No.0-8109-3887-1


Suzy Menkes, The Royal Jewels

1985, Grafton Books, Collins Publishing Group, London. ISBN No.0 246 12527 6


Geoffrey G. Munn, Castellani & Giuliano Revivalist Jewellers of the 19th Century

1984, Trefoil Books Ltd, London. ISBN No.0-86294-044-3


Hans Nadelhofer, Cartier Jewelers Extraordinary
1984, Hans Nadelhofer, Netherlands.


Clare Phillips, Jewellery from Antiquity to the Present

1996, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London. ISBN No. 0-500-20287-7
Web www.thamesandhudson.com


Clare Phillips, Jewels and Jewellery: the jewellery collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The Victoria and Albert Museum is one of the great museums of the decorative arts, with perhaps the finest and most comprehensive jewellery collection illustrating the development of Western jewellery over the last 500 years. This book provides the perfect background in words and pictures.

V&A Publications, London 2000. ISBN 1-85177-299-5.
Order on: www.vandashop.co.uk


Penny Proddow & Debra Healy, American Jewelry

1987, Rizzoli International Publications Inc, New York. ISBN No.0-8478-0830-0


Sylvie Raulet, Jewelry of the 1940s and 1950s

1988, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London.
Web www.thamesandhudson.com


Diana Scarisbrick (ed.), Jewellery

1989, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London.
Web www.thamesandhudson.com


Hermann Schadt, The Goldsmith's Art: 5000 Years of Jewellery and Hollow-ware
Useful account, available in English and German language editions, of development of goldsmith's techniques.

1996, Arnoldsche Verlag, Stuttgart.
Web www.arnoldsche.com


Kenneth A. Snowman (ed.) The Master Jewellers

1988, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London.
Web www.thamesandhudson.com


Kenneth A. Snowman, Fabergé: Lost and Found

Discussion and illustration of many of Fabergé's original jewellery designs, newly discovered in the St Petersburg Archives.

1993, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London. ISBN 0-5002-3669-0
Web www.thamesandhudson.com


Hugh Tait (ed.) Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery
Well illustrated history of jewellery from ancient times, worth seeing for astonishing painting by Alessandro Frei of goldsmith's workshop in Florence in 1568.

1986, British Museum Publications, London. ISBN No.0-7141-1710-2
Web www.britishmuseum.co.uk


Hugh Tait, The Art of the Jewellery

1984, British Museum Publications, London. ISBN 0-7141-0522-8
Web www.britishmuseum.co.uk


Oppi Untracht, Traditional Jewelry of India
Remarkable account of evolution of jewellery on the sub-continent over the last 4000 years and on the role of goldsmiths and development of their techniques.

1997, Thames & Hudson, London; Harry N. Abrams, New York. ISBN No.0-500-01780-8
Web www.thamesandhudson.com


Dyfri Williams & Jack Ogden, Greek Gold Jewellery of the Classical World

1994, British Museum Press, London. ISBN No.0-7141-2205-x
Web www.britishmuseum.co.uk