BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE!
Since one
book cannot possibly comprehend all the phases of a large subject, it
may be of service to some of our readers to supply a full bibliography,
like that which follows, a bibliography that will enable them easily to
acquire information on special phases, or advance to a liberal
education on the entire subject. It should be said, however, that an
absorption and assimilation of all that was ever printed about gems,
even with the aid of illustrations—line, half-tone, and colour-work of
the most advanced stage of reproductive pictorial art—cannot
thoroughly inform the student without close study of the gem stones and
cut gems themselves.
The most comprehensive book about gems ever written is undoubtedly Precious Stones by Dr. Max Bauer. The original of this monumental work was first published in parts under the title Edelsteinkunde in
1895 and 1896, in Germany, but was subsequently translated into
English by L. J. Spencer, °f the mineral department of the British
Museum, and published in 1904 in London, and a little later in this
country. With interest, pride, and pleasure Americans may read the
initial sentence of Dr.
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