BUSSY-RABUTIN. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules. (Paris), 1754, 5 vols., 12mo. 5 engraved title-pages designed by Choffard; 2 of them are engraved by Legrand.
CABINET DES FÉES, ou collection choisie des contes de fées et autres contes merveilleux, ornées de figures. Genève, Barde, Manget et Cie, et Paris, 1785-1789. 41 vols., 8vo. 120 plates by Marillier, of which Choffard engraved one.
Since there are 3 plates in each volume the book ought to contain 123 illustrations; but it must be noted that volume 37 has no pictures. There are 2 plates which are missing in most copies. The one belongs to “Barbe-Bleue,” and has “Dans ce moment on heurta si fort à la porte” inscribed on it, and the other bears the words “Le Petit Poucet s’étant approché de l’Ogre.” These two plates appear to have been replaced by the two others that illustrate these “contes” in all the ordinary copies of the book. The plates in the 12mo edition are later impressions than those in the 8vo. one.
The pictures are very commonly found bound without the text, and collectors appear to prefer them in this form.
CARTES ET TABLES DE LA GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE OU NATURELLE, cet ouvrage approuvé et publié sous le privge. de l’Ac. se trouve à Paris sur le quai de l’Horloge. A frame by Choffard.
CATALOGUE DES CHEVALIERS, COMMANDEURS ET OFFICIERS DE L’ORDRE DU SAINT-ESPRIT, avec leurs noms et qualité depuis l’institution jusqu’à présent. Paris, de l’imprimerie de Ballard, 1760, folio.
The publishers appear to have issued this book, in 1760, with a varying number of illustrations.
The following is the description of the illustrations in a very fine copy: a frontispiece by Boucher, engraved by L. Cars, a fleuron on the title-page, 1 head-piece, 5 head-pieces with portraits of French kings, 16 tail-pieces, some being repetitions of the same designs, and 5 ornamental letters. All the illustrations, excepting the frontispiece, bear the initials “H. G.” (Hubert Gravelot) and “L. C.” (L. Cars). Choffard, however, engraved them under Cars’ direction, in spite of them not being signed by Choffard, who likewise etched the two ornamental letters H and the three Ls, and Choffard designed the very small fleurons that are contained within the frame of these letters, which are charming.
CATALOGUE DES PLANCHES GRAVÉES QUI COMPOSENT LE FONDS DE BASAN. 1805.
This book contains a charming oblong vignette by Choffard, representing Basan’s gallery, in which “amateurs” are sitting and strolling.