Cabinet des fées, ou, Collection choisie des contes des fées et autre contes merveilleux
Cabinet des fées is a French collection of fairy tales compiled by Charles-Joseph Mayer and published in Geneva in 1785 by Barde and Manget for readers of marvellous stories. Its engravings show costumed figures in wooded settings and rocky cave entrances, drawn with fine hatched lines that a designer could borrow for dramatic, storybook-style scenes, while the marbled endpaper offers a red, green and cream pattern for covers.
