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Author Judith Crowe is both a gemstone dealer and jewellery maker and designer whose aim is “to provide an inspirational guide to gemstones that supplies essential gemmological and practical information and also encourages jewellers to produce imaginative and distinctive designs that celebrates the qualities of stone”. As well as being inspirational, the book is factual and practical.
The main body of the book is a “directory” (i.e. guide) to 39 gemstones. These include the well known topaz, garnet, jade, opal and diamond,...