The two reproductions given in this book will show how slight a variation there is in the treatment of the same subject for these two editions.
SAINT-NON (L’Abbé Richard de). Voyage pittoresque, ou Déscription des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Paris (Clousier imprimeur), 1781-1786, 4 parts in 5 vols., folio. This work is profusely illustrated by many artists.
Choffard engraved 18 plates; these have several subjects on each one. He also engraved a fleuron on the dedication-page to the Queen and 2 tail-pieces after his own designs; 2 fleurons on the title-pages after Fragonard and 2 tail-pieces and a head-piece by Paris are likewise engraved by Choffard.
These illustrations are some of the most beautiful Choffard ever invented and engraved after his compatriots.
A fine lavishly illustrated book, the expenses of which were defrayed by the author, whom it ruined.
The plate of the “Phallus” (vol. 2, page 52) and 14 plates of medals of Sicilian towns are often missing, but should be contained in the book.
SELLIUS et DUJARDIN. Histoire Générale des Provinces-unies. Paris, Simon, 1754-1770, 8 vols., 8vo. Eight vignettes by Choffard and Eisen, engraved by Le Mire, several maps with cartouches by Choffard, a frontispiece and a vignette on the dedication-page by Eisen and 18 portraits engraved by Flipart.
STIEBELT (D.). Grande Sonate pour le Piano Forte, composée et dediée par D. Stiebelt à Madame Bonaparte. A Paris chez Melle. Erard, A Lyon chez Gamier, prix 6, large 4to. The title-page is by Choffard.
TABLEAUX HISTORIQUES DE LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE (Collection complète des), composée de 113 numéros en trois volumes. (Texte par l’abbé Fauchet, Champfort, Guinguené et Pagès). A Paris, chez Aubert, éditeur et seul propriétaire, rue Saint-Lazare, Chaussée-d’Antin 42; imprimé par Didot l’aîné et terminé par Charles, rue de Seine, an XIII de la République française (1804), 3 vols., folio, vellum paper. Three frontispieces, 183 plates and 66 medallion portraits.
Choffard has engraved one of the plates which Duplessi-Bertaux etched. The first volume and half of the second had appeared in l’an VI (1798), when the editors were forced to modify the plan of their work and to reprint certain portions and to make it into three volumes in order to meet the current political requirements.