Jewelry Guide: The Ultimate Compendium

Name: Jewelry Guide: The Ultimate Compendium
Brand: Assouline
SKU: 9781649800411
Price: 52.5 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.3 (4 reviews)

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With the promise of eternity, jewels bestow gifts of adornment and beauty on those who wear them. Their value is multifaceted: intrinsic, sentimental, magical, human. Since the dawn of time, these few grams of precious metals and gems have acted as distillations of the highest sentiments and catalysts of the lowest passions.

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Customer Reviews (4.3 / 5 · 4 reviews)

Sophia ★★★★★ Nov 3, 2026

I picked this up expecting pretty pictures and got a genuinely thoughtful history instead. The chapters on jewels as magical and sentimental objects had me rethinking my own grandmother's brooch.

Isabella ★★★★★ Nov 3, 2026

The section on the sentimental and magical value of jewels genuinely surprised me—I expected a dry catalog but got something I read cover to cover in a weekend. The photos are gorgeous too, though I wish a few of the older pieces were printed larger.

John W. ★★★★☆ Nov 4, 2026

The section on the sentimental and magical value of jewels is what kept me reading—it goes well beyond just gemstone facts. Only wish the photos were larger, since the close-up details of the pieces are hard to make out. Solid compendium overall though.