This unique volume--the first English-language book published about Victorian- era jewelry--provides an intriguing historical account of nineteenth-century jewelry, and describes how types of jewelry were influenced by changes in dress, hairstyles, living standards, and period economics.

Foreword by Margaret J. Biggs

Acknowledgements

On Collecting Jewellery by Doris Langley Moore

INTRODUCTION

THE EARLY VICTORIAN, OR ROMANTIC PERIOD

 (I837-6o)

THE MID-VICTORIAN, OR GRAND PERIOD

 (I860--85)

THE LATE VICTORIAN, OR 2ESTHETIC PERIOD

  (I885-I9OI)

EARLY VICTORIAN JEWELLERY

 Illustrations

MID-VICTORIAN JEWELLERY

 Illustrations

LATE VICTORIAN JEWELLERY

 Illustrations

Jewellers

Glossary

Bibliography

Index