Cabinet des fées, ou, Collection choisie des contes des fées et autre contes merveilleux
A late eighteenth-century French fairy-tale anthology compiled by Charles-Joseph Mayer and published in Geneva in 1785 for general readers of contes merveilleux. Its two engraved plates are dramatic courtroom-like and interior scenes in a formal neoclassical manner, with columns, tiled rooms and richly dressed figures in turbans and robes, giving a designer strong staging, costume and architectural framing ideas.
