The Book Of The Pearl, The History, Art, Science, And Industry Of The Queen Of Gems by George Frederick Kunz, 1908. London. Excellent and authoritative review of pearls in jewelry in history and folklore by the former vice-president of Tiffany & Co., and America’s “Gem Expert” for many years.
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Published in 1894. This heavily illustrated book, many photographs and line drawings which cover chasing and repousse in depth and with subtlety. The hundreds of excellent line drawings of tools, stamps, and more are excellent. The tool…
This 1914 book is a very important early book on enameling. It is 65 pages of good, solid information. The first edition was in 1900, this version was published in 1914. It has excellent, thorough detail on enameling and making enamels, interesting…
A Manual of Electro-Metallurgy:
Including:
The Applications of the Art to Manufacturing
By James Napier, F.C.S.
This remarkable early 1860 book (written over 160 years ago!) is 179 pages of solid, interesting information. It is remarkable…
This book, originally published in England in 1913 covers repousse, fine chasing, silversmithing, jewellery and enamelling. It is part of Longman’s technical handicraft series of books. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement it details…
This third edition, published in 1912, is 495 thorough, dense, worthwhile pages of metallurgical and alloy information, almost all of it completely accurate today. The first edition was published in 1890. It begins with an excellent history…