Excerpt from English Jewellery: From the Fifth Century A. D. To 1800 For the purposes of this book jewellery has been defined as including all ornaments of wrought or jewelled metal actually worn on the person. This definition excludes such jewelled objects as croziers, snuff-boxes, and the like, that are not worn but carried. Limits of time are also necessary, and for these the V century a.d. And the year 1800 have been chosen, as marking definite breaks in the artistic history of the country. For reasons of space a full consideration of the collars and badges of official rank and of the national Orders of Knighthood, and of Royal Crowns and other coronets, has been omitted.

For the same reason there is no historical study of the English jewellers. The magical aspect of English jewellery has been considered in another work,1 and is here only in cidentally mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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