Engraved gems, signets, talismans and ornamental intaglios, ancient and modern
A collector's survey of engraved gems, signets, talismans and intaglios from antiquity to the modern era, written by Duffield Osborne and published by Henry Holt in New York in 1912 for gem collectors and students of classical art. The plates are halftone photographs of gem impressions ranked in numbered rows on black grounds, showing scarabs, deities, animals, portrait heads and inscriptions as small oval silhouettes.
