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Choffard

Chapter 5: ADDENDA TO CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
By Vera Salomons
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The author offers a compact biography and critical appraisal of Pierre-Philippe Choffard, tracing uncertain early dates and apprenticeship, his development into an eminent vignettist, and the graceful economy of his ornament and etching. The book assesses characteristic themes and techniques, highlights the celebrated set of etchings for Ovid's Metamorphoses, and reproduces examples in photogravure. It also provides a catalogue of books illustrated by him, addenda, a list of illustrations, and indexes to assist collectors, while mixing archival references, personal admiration, and comparative remarks to situate his work within eighteenth-century French book-decoration.

ADDENDA TO CATALOGUE
OF BOOKS

ATLAS MODERNE ou collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre par plusieurs auteurs. A Paris, chez Lattré et chez Delalain, small folio. A title-page and 73 maps; six of these have cartouches signed by Choffard. There are many others unsigned or bearing Arrivet’s or Marillier’s signature.

Paris, Hérissant, 1762, is printed on a later edition.

ALMANACH. Etrennes géographiques. Royaume de France divisé par généralités, sub-divisé par élections, diocèses, bailliages, etc., par L.-A. Ducaille, gravé par Lattré. Paris, Ballard, libraire, et aux Spectacles, 1760, 18mo. An ornamental title-page by Choffard and a frontispiece and maps by other artists.

BEAURAIN (Chevalier de). Histoire militaire de Flandre, depuis l’année 1690. jusqu’en 1694. inclusivement, etc., par le Chevalier de Beaurain. Paris, chez Le Chevalier de Beaurain, Ch. Nic. Poirion, Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1755, 2 vols., folio.

Volume I contains a frontispiece, 5 head-pieces and 5 tail-pieces. The last tail-piece in the volume is designed by Choffard, who also etched it, with the exception of the medal in the centre of the composition, which is engraved by Menil.

Volume II consists of 5 parts, starting by number I and contains an ornamental title-page and maps.

FÉNELON. Les aventures de Télemaque par Fénelon. De l’Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1785, 2 vols., folio. The woodcut of the arms of Monsieur, which is on the title-page of each volume, is engraved after Choffard.

This edition has a title-frontispiece, 72 plates, and 24 frames containing summaries and tail-pieces.

HÉRÉ. Plans et elevations de la Place Royale de Nancy et des autres edifices qui l’environnent bâties par les ordres du Roy de Pologne Duc de Lorraine. Dédiés au Roy de France par Héré premier architecte de sa Majesté polonoise. Paris, François, graveur, 1753, folio. An ornamental title-page, a frontispiece, a dedication page, and 13 folded architectural plates.

Choffard designed and etched the title-page; the frame round the dedication is etched by Choffard after François.

JANEL. Recueil de diligences, berlines, et carosses inventés et dessinés par Janel. Paris, Chéreau, oblong folio. 6 parts each containing 6 plates; these 36 illustrations were engraved under Choffard’s direction.

JOMBERT (Charles-Antoine). L’architecture moderne ou l’art de bien bâtir, pour toutes sortes de personnes, divisés en 10 livres. Paris, 1764, 4to. A frontispiece, head-pieces and architectural drawings by Choffard and other artists.

LA TOUR (Abbé de). Trois femmes, nouvelle. Seconde édition ornée de sept estampes dessinées par Legrand, et gravées à Paris par les meilleurs artistes. Leipsic, Pierre Philippe Wolff, 1798, 12mo. A frontispiece and 6 plates by Legrand, engraved by Choffard, Couché, and Duplessi-Bertaux.

These plates appear in “Recueil de nouvelles et autres écrits divers,” by the Abbé de la Tour, Leipsig, Pierre Philippe Wolff, 1798-1799, 3 vols., 12mo. They are also published in “Les trois femmes,” by Madame de Charrière.

See Charrière.