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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Drawing on extensive modern research this book now supersedes Dr Joan Evans’s English Jewellery published over seventy years ago. Covering a span of almost eight centuries from the Norman Conquest to the accession of Queen Victoria it is as instructive to the social historian as to the jewellery enthusiast since it not only tells us what the pieces looked like but sets them in their social context. Furthermore as Hugh Tait writes in his Foreword ‘to have Diana Scarisbrick’s detailed over-view of the complex history of jewellery in Britain is essen- tial if its international contribution is to be accurately assessed’. It is too a particular strength of the book that the author has been able to illustrate it with so many pieces from private collections which would not otherwise be easily accessible for study. Diana Scarisbrick has been steadily building a reputation in this field; Jewellery in Britain 1066-1837 will deservedly establish her as an authority. (OS)