Amsterdam: d’Estienne Roger (and others), Dated 1717 on series titles, but with a variety of dates on individual title-pages, ranging from 170. Bound as issued in publisher’s half sheep, over marbled boards, without titling, but with simple numbers to the spines. Edges completely uncut. Volume 1 contains: Florine, ou la belle Itallienne. and Contes Des Fées. Amsterdam; Estienne Roger. Engraved frontispiece; series title (as above). (vi), 326 pages. Separate title: CONTES DE FÉES. Dediez a Son Altesse Serenissime Madame la Princesse Douairiere De Conty. Par Mad. la Comtesse de M***. [Murat]. 1717. Part one illustrated with 12 copper-plate engravings. Part 2 with 3 copper-plate engravings. Lacks front free endpaper. Volume 2 contains: Les Nouveaux Contes Des Fées par Madame de M**. [Murat]. Les Avantures de Finette by Madame la Comtesse de Murat. And Contes Moins Contes Que Les Autres. [La Force]. Amsterdam; d’Estienne Roger. Engraved frontispiece (as above); series title (as above); (1717). (ii), 271 pages. Illustrated with 7 copper-plate engravings. Volume 3 contains: Les Contes Des Fées. Amsterdam; d’Estienne Roger. Series title, as in vol’s 1 &2, dated 1717, but different engraved frontispiece. Separate engraved frontispiece opposite new title: LES CONTES DES FÉES Par Madame D***. [d’Aulnoy] Auteur des Memoires & Voyage d’Espagne. Tome Premier. 1726. 423, [3 ad's] pages. Illustrated with 9 copper-plate engravings. Tome premier ends on page 210; Tome II begins on page 211, without title, as issued. There is a tear in the series title-page with slight loss. Volume 4 contains: Nouveaux Contes Des Fées. Amsterdam; d’Estienne Roger. Series title as in volumes 1, 2 & 3., but with a different engraved frontispiece. Separate engraved frontispiece opposite new title: NOUVEAUX CONTES DES FÉES. Par Madame D***. [d’Aulnoy] Auteur des Memoires & Voyages d’Espagne. (iv), 440 pages. 2 volumes in 1 with continuous pagination. Volume II beginning on page 237, without title, as issued. Illustrated with 10 copper-plate engravings. Volume 5 contains: LE NOUVEAU GENTILHOMME BOURGEOIS, OU LES FÉES A LA MODE. Par Madame D**. [d’Aulnoy] Amsterdam; d’Estienne Roger. Series title as in volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4., but with a different engraved frontispiece. (1717); engraved frontispiece: title for Volume I: d’Estienne Roger, dated 1711. 222 pages. Illustrated with 3 copper-plate engravings. Volume II: Engraved frontispiece; title for Volume II: Michel Charles le Cene. 1725. 230 pages. Illustrated with 3 copper-plate engravings. Volume 6 contains: LE NOUVEAU GENTILHOMME BOURGEOIS, OU LES FÉES A LA MODE. Par Madame D**. [d’Aulnoy] Volumes 3 & 4. Series title as in volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5, but with a different frontispiece. (1717); Engraved frontispiece; title for Volume I: Michel Charles Le Cene. 1725. 216 of 229 pages. [Lacking a signature which, clearly was never bound in when published.] Engraved frontispiece; title for Volume IV: Michel Charles Le Cene. 1725. 216 pages. Tome 3 illustrated with 4 copper-plate engravings. Tome 4 illustrated with 3 copper-plates. Joints strengthened on spine. Volume 7 contains: Les Illustres Fees; Les Fees Contes des Contes. Engraved frontispiece (identical to that opposite general title in volume 6) ; general title (1717); engraved frontispiece; title: LES ILLUSTRES FEES. Contes Galans. Dedie aux Dames. Par Madame D**. Seconde Edition, corrigee de plusieurs fautes. (No date.) 214+2pp Cat’. Engraved frontispiece; title: LES FEES CONTES DES CONTES. Par Mademoiselle de***. (No date.) Pierre Mortimer. 240 pages. Tome 1 illustrated with 11 copper-plate engravings. Tome 2 illustrated with 8 copper-plate engravings and a folding sheet of music. Volume 8 contains: Les Chevaliers Errans et La Genie Familier; & La Tirannie Des Fées Detruite… Series title as in volumes 1, 2,,3, 4, 5, 6, & 7. [1717], engraved frontispiece; title: LES CHEVALIERS ERRANS ET LE GENIE FAMILIER. Par Madame la Comtesse D**. 1709. 259, [1 ad'] pages. Engraved frontispiece; title: LA TYRANNIE DES FÉES DE’TRUITE. Nouveaux Contes... Par Madame la Comtesse D. L. 1710. 200 pages. Tome 1 illustrated with 10 copper-plate engravings. Tome 2 illustrated with 6 copper-plate engravings. Condition: a few leaves with clean tears; a few leaves loosening; lacking a signature from volume six [never bound in]; some wear and loss to heads and heels of spines; some volumes lacking an endpaper; else a remarkably clean and fresh set in a contemporary binding, contained in a modern cloth box with leather gilt label. So far as we have been able to determine, this is the earliest printing of a work entitled Le Cabinet des Fées known. Despite Perrault being a contemporary of Comtesse d’Aulnoy and publishing his signature work, Histoires, ou contes du temps passé, avec des Moralitez in the same year [1697] as she published her Contes des Fées, this collection omits his fairy tales, an omission that wasn’t rectified until the publication in 1785-89 of a forty-one volume set of Les Cabinet Des Fées. An almost identical set to that we are offering, though lacking some frontispieces and titles, is in the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton. Of the utmost rarity and importance.