John BoardmanGreek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze to Late Classical

Very professional and thorough study by the writer in his field of expertise. A lot of examples and museum records.

Boardman's book is great for looking at Bronze Age, early and classical Greek Gems, but only spends a few pages on Hellenistic Gems and lumps them together with Roman, which was a bit disappointing. Other than that, a beautiful book, almost a complete corpus of gems from the noted period. Very useful.

Exellent textbook, covering all periods and styles of greek gems. very informative and well written. Maybe the quality of the illustrations is a bit out of date.