Collection d'estampes contenant Les contes de fées en 110 pièces, le tout gravé par M. J. de Longueil et autres, sou la direction de M. Marillier [album].

Accession number: 
PML 140133
Published: 
[Paris] : Imprimerie de Neufforge, [1789?]
Description: 
1 album (110 leaves of plates) : engravings ; 26 cm (page size: 9 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches)
Credit: 
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes: 

Collection of engravings by Berthet, Boisse, Borgnet, Choffard, Croutelle, Dambrun, Delaunay, Delignon, Delvaux, Duponchel, Fessard, Gaucher, de Ghendt, Godefroy, Halbou, Jonxis, Langlois jeune, Lebeau, Legrand, Leroy, Leveau, Le Villain, de Longueil, Malapeau, Mme. Demonchy, Mlle. Retor, Texier, Thomas, and de Valnet after designs by Marillier.
Le cabinet des fées appeared in forty-one volumes between 1785 and 1789. It contains 120 plates in two sequences numbered 1-108 and 1-12. After its publication was concluded, there appeared this suite with the first sequence of 108 plates and planches refusées for the first two stories concering Bluebeard and Tom Thumb. Cf. Ray.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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