Cabinet des fées, ou, Collection choisie des contes des fées et autre contes merveilleux
A fairy tale collection compiled by Charles-Joseph Mayer, printed in Geneva in 1785 by Barde and Manget for a general readership of French-speaking readers. The single picture is a small woodcut tailpiece or vignette, a floral ornament built around a basket-like urn, a hunting horn and a ribbon-tied bundle, with a purple library stamp at the right edge. A designer could take from it the compact, symmetrical arrangement of flowers and trophies that suits a decorative border or emblem.
