GREEK GEMS AND FINGER RINGS. Early Bronze Age to Late Classical by BOARDMAN, John

Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0810901595 . Minor shelfwear to book. Pages lightly tanned. DJ has many tears and chipping. DJ somewhat tattered. ; Very heavy. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 458 pages .

London: Thames & Hudson 1970. Large 4to. 458 pp., with 1385 illustrations including 51 colour plates & 318 line drawings. Price clipped jacket. 0500160155 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1970.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Thames and Hudson, 1970. Large quarto, 458 pages with 1385 illustrations (over 1000 from photographs, and 51 in colour), showing the gems 'up to four times their natural size'. Cloth; an excellent copy with the lightly used dustwrapper. 'A comprehensive account of the art in Greek lands from the early Bronze Age down to the Hellenistic period. The gems are related to history and to the artistic achievements in other media of their day, and the subject matter of the scenes engraved upon them is examined and found to hold much that will be new to students of Greek myth and iconography' (dustwrapper blurb).

London : Thames and Hudson, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Large Book - between A4 and A3. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers have some scattered foxing and front and back endpapers have a browned strip (next to the dust jacket flap). Text is not foxed Edges very faintly browned with a few small marks The miniaturist art of gem engraving is the least familiar of the major arts of ancient Greece, yet we know it to have been practiced by the greatest artists. This book presents a comprehensive account of the art in Greek lands from the early Bronze Age down to the Hellenistic period. The gems are related to history and to the artistic achievements in other media of their day, and the subject matter of the scenes engraved upon them is examined and found to hold much that will be new to students of Greek myth and iconography. The development of the… Read More

London: Thames & Hudson, 1970. Book measures 31x24.cm. 458pp, illustrated. Bound in original publishers cloth, with gilt lettering. Binding in good clean firm condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, minor abrasion wear. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean. A nice clean copy. . Cloth. Very Good/Near Very Good. Quarto.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1970. 1st edition. Near Fine. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 458pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., notes, indexes,

London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12.5" by 9.5". None. A first edition of this study of Ancient Greek jewellery, from the early Bronze Age to the fourth century B.C. Containing information on the methods used to create the jewellery, and the origins of the many different forms of decoration. With black-and-white and colour photographs by Robert L. Wilkins. The Greeks started using gold and gems in their gold jewelry in 1,400 BC, although beads shaped as shells and animals were produced widely in earlier times. By 300 BC, the Greeks had mastered making colored gold jewelry and using amethysts, pearl and emeralds. Also, the first signs of cameos appeared, with the Greeks creating them from Indian Sardonyx, a striped brown pink and cream agate stone. Greek gold jewelry was often simpler than in other cultures, with simple designs and workmanship. However, as time progressed the designs grew in complexity different materials were soon utilized. (GJ) In a… Read More