Jade

by Fred Ward and Charlotte Ward

Book Overview

Popular series focusing on individual gems and their outstanding color. Contains history and lore as well as sources and buying tips. Beautiful, full-color photos throughout. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887651063
• ISBN13: 9781887651066
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An excellent book!

This is a great book for anyone interested in learning about jade. The color photos are excellent and really show the beauty of the fascinating stone.

Stone of Heaven

Jade (Fred Ward Gem Book)The pictures in this book are magnificent and show jade--and jade carving at its best! In fact, it is difficult to take your eyes off the pictures long enough to read the text. Readable, not pedantic--the book definitely shows the carvers skill and how the jade speaks to them about what to carve. This book truly shows the one stone that responds to a person's "chi." If you don't believe me, get the book--then buy some really good--not dyed or infused--jade and wear it next to your skin. See . . . I told you.

A good read

So far it is a good read,for I have not finished it as of yet

Informative and nice pictures

There are not too many books on Jade, so I'm glad I found this one. It was pretty informative and had very nice photographs illustrating the author's points. It's worth it if you're in the jewelry business and want to know more about jade, and it's good for any jade collector. I found the information to be accurate.

Buy this book!!!

Like all of the Fred Ward Gem Books Series, this is an instant classic. It features National Geographic quality photos, no surprise since Ward has photographed/authored a number of articles for that magazine. My favorite section deals with the jade from Meso-America, used by the Olmec, Mayan and Aztec civilizations. But it also contains much on Burmese and Chinese jade. This is simply an outstanding book. Buy it.