Selected from an extremely rare nineteenth-century catalog, this compilation offers a visual celebration of handcrafted French ironwork designs. Filled with finely rendered black-and-white images, it presents a lavish assortment of balustrades, grand balconies, brackets, and many other examples of highly stylized ornamental ironwork. This volume offers a valuable source of motifs, inspiration, and accurate details for commercial artists, designers, and craftspeople as well as architectural historians and blacksmiths and other metalsmiths.
