An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, 2430 terms relating to gemstones, jewels, materials, processes, styles, designers and makers from antiquity to the present day, by Harold Newman
Soft cover, 354 pages, 685 illustrations (most black and white)
This is a much more scholarly publication than the Bead Bible and it covers a much broader stretch of time and space. However, it's about jewelry as opposed to beads so it's less focused on our particular interests.
Nevertheless I consider it worthwhile reference for accurate, succinct entires, covering a very wide variety of topics, from artistic styles like Art Deco or Benin Jewelry to designers' bios, techniques, gemstones, or even specific hoards of jewelry discovered in various places, and much more.
These are the kinds of things that are much easier to look up here than to track down on the internet only to find some AI gibbersih, misleading E-bay descriptions and so on.
Students, teachers, aspiring jewelry artists, sellers and/or collectors should find this book worthwhile.
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