Chansons choisies
Subtitle: avec les airs notés
Contributors: Boily, C., engraver; Raparlier, R., binder
Publisher: Cazin
Published: 1782
Place of publication: Genève [i.e. Lyon]
Language: fre
Notes: Vol. 1: [2], xvi, 220, xxxiii, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates;  v. 2: [2], 236, xxxii p.;  v. 3: [2], 240, xxiv p.;  v. 4: [4], 339 [i.e. 239], [1], xxvi p.

Signatures: pi² a⁶(-a6 +*1) chi² A-I¹² K²;  pi² A-I¹² K¹⁰;  pi² A-K¹² (E5 signed E1, I5 signed I3);  pi² A¹² (-A12 + *1) B-G12 (±G2) H-K¹².

In vols. 3 and 4 the imprint date is changed by error from M.DCC.LXXXII to M.DCC.LXXVII.  Cf. A. Corroënne.

Error in pagination: v. 4, p. 239 numbered p. 339.

Engraved frontispiece in v. 1 is signed in the plate: "C. Boily, inv. et sc."

Engraved music: v. 1: p. I-XXXIII; v. 2: p. I-XXXII; v. 3: p. I-XXIV; v. 4: I-XXVI.

Title-page ornaments and head-pieces; typographical rules and ornaments.

Two different editions issued in 1782, but both with music printed from the same plates.  In this edition the title-page ornaments are as follows: v. 1, 3, are baskets of flowers; v. 2, branches and a floral ring; v. 4, an urn of flowers.

Corroënne, A.  Icono-mono-bibliographie des petits formats, p. 17-18.
Table of contents: title: vol. 1. Chansons anciennes. Chansons érotiques. Romances; title: v. 2. Chansons pastorales. Chansons villageoises. Chansons grivoises. Chansons poissardes. Chansons parlées; title: v. 3. Sujets particuliers. Chansons bachiques. Vaudevilles; title: v. 4. Chansons libres et joyeuses. Couplets détachés.