"Introduction translated from the French by Gail de Courcy-Ireland. Text abridged [from the author's Renaissance jewellery, published in 1979] and edited by Amy L. Slingerland"--Colophon (page 290).
The authors of these five volumes from Laurence King have, over the past three years, written books that bear essentially the same titles as five volumes in the Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Random House ...