A collection of twenty-eight engravings, including one of twelve color plates, the Title of 1670 and other works in the definitive state by Maurice Leloir and others.

The collection is provided with complete provenance dating to its issue of 1895 (including original issuance certificate), the collection title page, a separate list of engravings and certificate of authenticity.

Magnificent Lovers: Act IV, Scene II - Color plate from the suite with the artist's signature in the plate, and additional engraving contributions by etcher, Géry-Bichard, whose name is also signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Title - A frame of scrolls is surrounded by the head of a woman emerging from palm leaves. with Maurice Leloir, as delineator.

Magnificent Lovers: Title of 1670 - The frame is designed in the style of the very end of the XVII century, with Maurice Leloir, as delineator, translated from the French, the original work of 1670. The artist's monogram is signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Act IV, Scene II - Engraving from the suite with the artist's signature in the plate, and additional engraving contributions by etcher, Géry-Bichard, whose name is also signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Dramatis Personé - Maurice Leloir, as delineator, translated from the French, the original work of 1670, a listing of the cast of characters.

Magnificent Lovers: First Interlude - The scene opens with the pleasant sound of a quantity of instruments... With the artist's monogram in the grass of the shoreline and signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: First Interlude - The King as Neptune - The King, standing on a pedestal supported by a shell and two fish. "Journey on this sea with indomitable zeal!"

Magnificent Lovers: Act I, Scene II - Anaxarchus, Aristione, Iphicrates, Timocles, Sostrates and Clitidas, who says: "Peace, impertinent fellow that you are!"

Magnificent Lovers: Act I, Scene VI - Cleonice and Erphila, who saying: "How sweet it is to commune with one's own thoughts" Signed in the plate with the artist's monogram.

Magnificent Lovers: Second Interlude - Two images are represented with narrative from the play. The artist's monogram is signed in both plates.

Magnificent Lovers: Act II, Scene III - Cleonice, Clitidas and Erphila, who demands: "Out of my site Clitidas!", with the artist's monogram signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Act II, Scene IV - Erphila and Sostrates. Erphila: "For which of the two, Sostrates, would you incline?", with the artist's monogram signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Third Interlude - Caliste, Tircus, Lycaste and Menander in a romantic scene in the forest, to which the princess has been invited.

Magnificent Lovers: Third Interlude - The Dryad and the four Fauns rejoicing in revelry at the princess' new-found love. With the artist's monogram signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Act III - Aristione, Erphila, Sostrates, Iphicrates, Timocles and Anaxarchus. Aristione: "Whence comes that, Sostrates?", with the artist's monogram signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Act III, Scene I - Aristione (speaking to the others): "Please, do leave us for a moment.", with the artist's monogram signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Fourth Interlude - Two images are represented with narrative from the play. The artist's monogram is signed in both plates.

Magnificent Lovers: Fifth Interlude - Two images are represented with narrative from the play. The artist's monogram is signed in both plates.

Magnificent Lovers: Act IV - Venus (in a machine, speaking to Aritione and Erphila): "Give your daughter to him who shall save your life.". The artist's monogram is signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Act IV, Scene II - The scene of the trick practised by Anaxarchus upon Eriphila and her mother.

Magnificent Lovers: Act IV, Scene IV - Erphila: "Sostrates, spare my weakness!", with the artist's monogram signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Act V - Clitidas, run up a tree by a wild boar: "Each one made for his tree."

Magnificent Lovers: Act V, Scene III - Anaxarchus and the Princes (as they beat him): "They have both given way to their resentment against him.", with the artist's monogram signed in the plate.

Magnificent Lovers: Sixth Interlude - The Dance of the Savages - The scene represents a great hall in the form of an amphitheatre opening upon a grand arcade at the farther end, above which is a tribune, closed by a curtain, and in the distance is seen an alter prepared for sacrifice.

Magnificent Lovers: Sixth Interlude - Fini - Louis XVI as the Sun, with the artist's monogram signed in the plate.