(BRITISH MUSEUM COLLECTION.)

Marshall, F. H. Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum. 73 plates displaying thousands of objects in the collection. 4to, publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth, some blistering and rubbing with occasional small loss; front hinge cracked, front endpaper creased vertically. London, 1911 scarce first edition of this history of the collection. It discusses "various types of jewelry represented according to periods and remarks on stylistic distinctions and employments of materials as well as manufacturing techniques... A superb production of an authoritative work that is constantly referenced in later works on the history of jewelry"--Sinkankas 4226.