About this title: A highly readable account of how jewelry and fashion influenced each other and how both were determined by living standards and economics of the Victorian years. Includes lovely examples of jeweled tiaras, brooches, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, lockets, and chains, all set with precious and semi-precious stones. 115 halftones, 66 line ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Very good+ first edition hard cover. Red cloth with gold lettering. Minor edge wear. Good pictorial dust jacket. Rubbed. Bumped with several chips. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A. S. Barnes
Date Published: 1967
Description: Fair. 1967 edition. Hardcover. Fair condition. Dust cover has tears, creases, fraying and soiling. Front cover board has slight dip in middle. Small hole between front cover and first blank page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Lovely photographs and illustrations of jewellery and the women who wore them. read more
Description: Good. B0006BOL30, HARDCOVER, Withdrawn from a library and has the usual stamps, stickers, etc. may or may not have the original dust jacket. read more
Edition: 1st Edition?
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce Pub, NY
Date Published: 1951 1st pub"
Description: 10 col Photos, Drawings.118pg. VERY GOOD Condition. 7"x10" Red Clothbound 271pg includes DUST JACKET TORN IN 2 PIECES WITH SEVERAL CHIPS to spine strip of DJ, Gold titles on Red cloth hard covers. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DUELL, SLOAN & PEARCE INC, NEW YORK
Description: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK IS TIGHT AND HAS UNDERLINING AND WORDING WRITTEN IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE TEXT. (MOSTLY IN THE FIRST 20 OR SO PAGES) HAS THE TRADITIONAL LIBRARY MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. THE FLAPS FROM THE DJ WERE SAVED AND ATTACHED TO THE COPYRIGHT PAGE. PAGE EDGES HAVE MILD SOILING. SOME SOILING TO THE BOARDS ALONG WITH RUBBING TO ALL EDGES. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: B/W and Color Illustrations. Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 7 1/2 x 10" 271 pages with more than 200 photographs and ten color plates of Victorian ornaments. First pasted down is cracked at spine. Dust jacket is edge worn. read more
Description: 1st edition. With a Foreword by Margaret J. Biggs and a chapter on Collecting by Doris Langley Moore. 4to. Pp xxviii + 271 + 10pp colour plates + b&w illustrtaions throughout. Burgundy cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Cloth a little marked else Very Good without dust-jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick, NJ
Date Published: 1973
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. New & revised edition. Octavo. xxviii, 271 pp; 10 color plates & 118 pages of b/w illustrations; glossary; bibliography; index. Purple cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-, a few short tears to jacket edges. read more
Edition: 1st U.S. ed., first printing. Used British sheets and plates.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1951)
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. A bit of water hit the top of the book at some point; there are slight marginal stains on some of the plates; these extend for about an inch along the top and at most go halfway down the margin. Full red cloth over boards. 271 pages. 10 color plates. 118 black-and-white. a plate can have as many as 20 pieces of jewelry. 10 x 8.7 in. read more
Description: Good. Cleaned ex-library HARDBACK, with library markings removed, but with residual damage visible; including the excision of the ffep. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 271 pages, illustrated and indexed. NO ownership, remainder or other marks. Binding is tight and square. Chips to head and tail of dust jacket spine. D/j is price-clipped and protected in mylar. read more
Description: Very Good. 1951, stated 1st, red cloth, no dust jacket, light wear to spine ends and corners, ghost of an address stamp and ink scribble to front pastedown, light ink owner name to fep o/w interior is clean and sound. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes and CO, Inc
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. A hardcover in purple cloth boards, with 271 pages. Black and white photographs, clean text. Previous owner's bookplate at the front free endpaper. On costume, parures and demi-parures, necklaces, earrings and more. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Co. Inc., South Brunswick
Date Published: 1967
Description: Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good+ dust jacket. General shelfwear and aging to the dust jacket mostly to the edges of the spine. Text is clean and bright and contains numerous b&w plates. 271 pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DUELL, SLOAN, AND PEARCE
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. No dust jacket. 1951 HARDCOVER AS STATED-COVER SHOWS WARPING-TEXT PGS CLEAN BUT WRITING ON 1ST NONTEXT PG-BINDING SOLID-NO DJ-NOT X LIBRARY-MOM2. 271p., ill., 26 cm. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London
Date Published: 1967
Description: With a Foreword by Margaret J. Biggs and a Chapter on Collecting by Doris Langley Moore. Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.., 1050grams, ISBN: read more
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Cassell, London
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good+ in good jacket. 8vo. 2nd revised edition. 118 pages illus. 10 colour plates. Light damp affect to boards. Dw has wear and tears to extremities. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CASSELL
Date Published: 1951
Description: Ex-Library Published by CASSELL in 1951. Hardback. Number of pages: 271. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Ex-library book (usual stamps and marks). Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Edition: New edition.
Binding: Hardcover.
Publisher: A.S. Barnes., South Brunswick, NJ.
Date Published: 1967.
Description: B/w photos. Near fine in VG dust jacket & clear protective cover. Cloth out-of-print. Large octavo. 271 pages. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. List of jewellers. With a foreword by Margaret J. Biggs & a chapter on collecting by Doris Langley Moore. 118 plates. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A. S. Barnes
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780498012655ISBN:0498012654
Description: Fair. . No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting.....moderate cover wear.....ex library book in fair or better good condition. usual library markings.. read more
Edition: First
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Cassell, London
Date Published: 1951
Description: With a Foreword by Margaret J. Biggs and a Chapter on Collecting by Doris Langley Moore. 10 color plates, 118pp of black & white illus. 271pp. 4to, maroon cloth (faint stain on cover). London: Cassell & Company, (1951). First edition. A very good copy. An "historical account of Victorian jewelery and fashions, and how they influenced each other and...were both dictated by the standard of living and economic state of the period. " read more
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