CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF JEWELS AND PRECIOUS WORKS OF ART, G.C. WILLIAMSON, LITT.D.
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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF JEWELS AND PRECIOUS WORKS OF ART, G.C. WILLIAMSON, LITT.D.

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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF JEWELS AND PRECIOUS WORKS OF ART, G.C. WILLIAMSON, LITT.D.
Compiled at the request of J. Pierpont Morgan, London: Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, by Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London, 7th May, 1910, 183 pages

Large quatro (380 x 310 x 75 mm). Title printed in red and black, with 94 mounted illustrations and 46 hand-coloured facsimiles, of original red morocco gilt, surrounded by swirling gilt tolled floral sprays, red watered silk liners with gilt border and gilt edges, in original cloth covered slip case

Limited edition: number 18 of 40 copies printed on Japanese vellum. The objets d'art illustrated include rings, rosaries and rosary beads, reliquaries, necklaces, pendant jewels, silver and niello medallions, portrait medallions, ivory and enamelled caskets, buttons, seals, chalices, cups, vases and clocks

"The whole of the plates of this book have been engraved by Hallet Hyatt, of 111, Oxford Street, London. All the photographs have been taken by him, and the whole of the hand-coloured facsimiles were painted under his supervision."