Author: TRADECATALOGUE.- FOURMENT, HOUILLE, & CIE. Maitres de forges
Title: Ornements en Fonte de Fer [Catalogue of cast iron metalwork]. Fourment, Houille & cie. Maitres de forges, Ancienne Maison Barbezatte & cie.
Description: Paris, no publ. No date (appr. 1860). Folio. W. 388 plates (some folding, plate 555 of a marvellous fountain measures appr. ) containing hundreds and hundreds of items, the plates numbered from 8 upwards to 950. Original green publ. cloth, old recasing, matching colour cloth spine. Endpapers renewed. Upper cover giltlettered, faded. (Cloth some imperf., especially lower cover some damage and wear). (388 lvs., 4 lvs. (Index). (Some light finger soiling, occasionally a few soiled spots for instance between plate 555 & 571; a few small tears in some of the larger folding plates.). (Bookplate on upper paste down 'Earl of Normanton'). Fine collection of plates depicting literally thousands of cast irion objects, rangeing from animals, stairs, balconies, candelabres, fountains, crowns, vases, urinals, garden rollers, cooking ranges, heating devices / ovens, water features, statues, decorative ornaments for doors, gates and fountains; The upper cover of the binding is giltlettered (sl. faded): 'Hauts Fourneaux & Fonderies du Val D'Osne - Sold exclusively by Turner & Allen 201 Upper Thames Street London'.:

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