xi., _Deucalion et Pyrrha repeuplant la Terre, suivant l'Oracle de Themis_ (see the frontispiece to this volume, Plate I), and though Eisen was a much better artist than Gravelot, his _Apollon gardant les troupeaux d'Admet, dans les campagnes de Messene_ (II, x.) is certainly one of his prettiest pieces. [Illustration: XXXIX. PARIS, LAMBERT, 1770. DORAT. LES BAISERS. PAGE WITH ENGRAVED HEADPIECE AFTER EISEN] During the next few years illustrated books became the fashion, so that in 1772 Cazotte wrote _Le diable amoureux, nouvelle d'Espagne_, with the false imprint Naples (Paris, Lejay) and six unsigned plates, said to be by Moreau after Marillier, on purpose to ridicule the craze for putting illustrations into every book. In 1768 the indefatigable Gravelot had illustrated an edition of the works of Voltaire, published at Geneva, with forty-four designs. In 1769 _Les Saisons_, a poem by Saint Lambert, was published at Amsterdam, with designs by Gravelot and Le Prince and _fleurons_ by Choffard. In the same year there was published at Paris Meunier de Queslon's _Les Graces_, with an engraved title by Moreau, a frontispiece after Boucher, and five plates after Moreau. In 1770 came Voltaire's _Henriade_ with ten plates and ten vignettes after Eisen, and more highly esteemed even than this, Dorat's _Les Baisers_ (La Haye et Paris), with a frontispiece and plate and forty-four head- and tailpieces, all (save two) after Eisen, not easily surpassed in their own luxurious style (see Plate XXXIX). In 1771 Gravelot, more indefatigable than ever, supplied designs for twenty plates and numerous head- and tailpieces for an edition of Tasso's _Gerusalemme Liberata_, and was honoured, as Eisen had been in the Fermiers-Generaux edition of La Fontaine's _Contes_, by his portrait being prefixed to the second volume. In 1772 a new edition of Montesquieu's _Le Temple de Gnide_, in which the text was engraved throughout, was illustrated with designs by Eisen, brilliantly interpreted by Le Mire, and Imbert's _Le Jugement de Paris_ was illustrated by Moreau, With, _fleurons_ by Choffard. In 1773 _Le Temple de Gnide_ was versified by Colardeau, and illustrated by Monnet, and selections from Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, and Moschus by Eisen, while Moreau and others illustrated the _Chansons_ of Laborde in four volumes and the works of Moliere in six. After this the pace slackened, and we need no longer cling to the methods of the annalist. Moreau illustrated Saint Lambert's _Les Saisons_ and Fromageot's _Annales du regne de Marie Therese_ (both in 1775), Marmontel's _Les Incas_ (1777), the seventy-volume Voltaire (1784-9), _Paul et Virginie_ (1789), and many other works, living on to illustrate Goethe's _Werther_ in 1809; other books were adorned by Marillier, Cochin, Duplessis, Bertaux, Desrais, Saint Quentin, Fragonard, Gerard, and Le Barbier, and the fashion survived the Revolution and lingered on till about 1820.