Gems and Jewellery in Colour — Ove Dragsted

Description:

A brilliant, handy gemology book covering lots of different aspects of gemstones — with beautiful painted illustrations. A real vintage find and a compact, highly visual resource.

Additional Notes:

Rock hounding is a term well coined to cover the phenomenal interest in rocks, minerals and pebbles, both by amateur geologists and by those for whom it is a fascinating hobby and home craft. The mounting interest in natural objects is nowhere more impressive than in the collecting of rock specimens and in polishing and transforming these into jewelry and ornaments.

Gems and Jewellery in Colour has 820 illustrations in sumptuous colour which represent a pictorial atlas of all the main rocks and gems used in the making of jewellery. The colour plates show the evolution of the natural stone into its final ornament. No comparable book exists.

The extensive text matter — fully illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams — provides a scientific background to the subject and gives details of world distribution and fascinating facts about the value and use of stones for commercial and decorative purposes.

The author, who is Crown Jeweller to the Danish Court, is himself an eminent figure in the world of gemology. This important addition to the Blandford Colour Series forms a useful link between the more serious geological books in the Blandford list and the immensely successful craft books on pebble polishing, rock and gem polishing, and others.

Condition: Hardback, used

Dimensions: 19 × 13 × 2 cm