Henri Vever - French Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century by Henri Vever

Vevers LA bijouterie francaise au xixem siecle was first published in France between 1906-08, it has been the Bible of all jewelry experts, buyers, sellers, scholars and historians ever since. Only 1, 000 copies were originally produced, and it has been out of print for many years, appearing only rarely in the auction houses where it fetches very large sums. This volume - The first ever complete translation into English, photographs, sketches for jewels and prints from fashion magazines. 136 colour photographs of jewels now in the muses des arts decoratifs are new to this edition.