ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). La Nouvelle Héloïse, ou Lettres de deux Amants, habitants d’une petite Ville au Pied des Alpes, recueillies et publiées par J. J. Rousseau, nouvelle édition, corigée et augmentée de figures en taille-douce et d’une table des matières. Neuchâtel et Paris, chez Duchesne, 1764, 4 vols., 12mo and 8vo. A frontispiece by Cochin and the same illustrations as in the preceding book, excepting the twelfth plate, which is engraved by De Longueil.
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Collection complète des Œuvres DE J.-J. Rousseau. Londres (Bruxelles), 1774-1783, 12 vols., 4to. One portrait, 12 fleurons on the title-pages and 37 plates.
The fleurons on the title-pages of five volumes, all different, are by Choffard. Also two plates are engraved by him after Moreau and Cochin.
Plates before letters are very scarce indeed and so are the eaux-fortes. Several of the volumes bear earlier dates printed on the title-pages than those engraved on the illustrations in the books. On the title-page of volume nine is the date “MDCCLXVI” instead of “MDCCLXXVI” as it should be. This error occurs in the particular copy examined, but may, perhaps, only occur in certain copies. The plate Choffard engraved after Cochin for “Emile” was again engraved by him in a reduced size for the octavo edition.
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques). Œuvres de J.-J. Rousseau, citoyen de Genève, édition orné de figures, etc. Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve (Imprimerie de Didot jeune), 1793-1800, 18 vols., large 4to, vellum paper. A portrait, 5 frontispieces and 29 plates. Two of these latter are engraved by Choffard after Monsiau.
The illustrations exist in the eau-forte and before letters.
SAINT-LAMBERT. Les Saisons, poème. Amsterdam, 1769, 8vo. One fleuron on the title-page, 4 etched head-pieces by Choffard and 5 plates by Le Prince and Gravelot.
The illustration by Le Prince for the “Printems” [sic] is badly engraved by Watelet in this edition. The engraver’s signature is followed by the date 1768. Choffard has reproduced this plate beautifully and dated it 1767.
Re-issued in 1771 as third edition and in 1773 as fifth edition, with the same plates.
SAINT-LAMBERT. Les Saisons, poëme, septième édition. Amsterdam, 1775, large 8vo, and Contes, Poésies fugitives et Fables Orientales. Five plates by Moreau and a fleuron and 4 head-pieces by Choffard. These are very slightly larger than those in the edition just mentioned and have small differences in the designs, also Choffard did not etch these plates quite so delicately.