Henri Vever

French Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century

Henri Vever, Katherine Purcell, Geoffrey C. Munn

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Thames & Hudson Ltd
16 August 2001

Antiques & collectables: jewellery; Jewellery & beadcraft

Vever's La Bijouterie Française au XIXem Siècle was first published in France between 1906-08: it has been the bible of all jewelry experts, buyers, sellers, scholars and historians ever since. Only 1,000 copies were originally produced, and it has been out of print for many years, appearing only rarely in the auction houses where it fetches very large sums.

This volume - the first ever complete translation into English - includes over 1400 illustrations: photographs, sketches for jewels and prints from fashion magazines. 136 colour photographs of jewels now in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs are new to this edition.

All the great and now more obscure jewelers are included in the text and illustrations: Alphonse Fouquet, Boucheron, Falize, Froment-Maurice, Cartier, Chaumet, Georges Fouquet, Gaillard, Vever, Lalique, and many many more.

The discussion in the text is not only of the individual jewels and types of jewelry, but also includes many entertaining anecdotes about the jewelers' relations with their customers and with society in general. Being himself a jeweler, Henri Vever was able to talk personally with all the people he writes about (or their followers), so the book has an unusual degree of authority.

By: Henri Vever, Katherine Purcell
Translated by: Geoffrey C. Munn
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 275mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 89mm
Weight: 4.870kg
ISBN: 9780500237847
ISBN 10: 0500237840
Pages: 1312
Publication Date: 16 August 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katherine Purcell is the author of Falize: A Dynasty of Jewelers, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Reviews for Henri Vever: French Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century

'This is a book that should be on the bookshelf of any serious collector or dealer . . . of these 1300 pages, there is not one without some interesting fact, anecdote or illustration' - Art Review 'Thames & Hudson have done Vever and Purcell proud . . . Now with an extremely readable translation the book has been opened to an even wider audience . . . wholeheartedly recommended' - Decorative Arts Society Newsletter