Cabinet des fées, ou, Collection choisie des contes des fées et autre contes merveilleux
Cabinet des fées is a French fairy-tale anthology compiled by Charles-Joseph Mayer and published in Geneva in 1785 for general readers of collected wondrous tales. Its two engraved plates show a winged dragon swooping on a man in a rocky garden and a richly dressed couple embracing in an interior with a tall panelled door, both framed with French caption strips beneath. A designer could take the crisp contour line work, theatrical staging and tidy framed-plate layout as a model for period illustration.
