The Intelligent Layman's book of jewellery

Contents

Part 1: Jewellery and its beginnings. What is jewellery? ; The materials of jewellery ; Gemstones ; The earliest jewellery ; Western Asia ; Egypt -- Part 2: The Rise of European jewellery. Greece ; Prehistoric Europe ; Etruscan ; The Greek world after 500BC ; Roman ; The Byzantine & Medieval world up to AD 1000 ; Later Medieval Europe ; The rest of the world ; European Renaissance -- Part 3: The Emergence of the modern world. Europe and the Industrial Revolution ; The nineteenth century ; Post World War 2.