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: Two editions issued in the same year, different settings of type for the text, different title-page ornaments in vols. 2 & 3, but with the same engraved music throughout. In this edition the title-page ornament on v. 2 and 3 is a basket of flowers.

Vol. 1: [2], xvi, 220 p., [1] leaf of plates, xxxiii p. of plates ; v. 2: [2], 236 p., xxxii p. of plates ; v. 3: [2], 240 p., xxiv p. of plates ; v. 4: [4], 339 [i.e. 239] p. , xxvi p. of plates.

Errors in imprint dates on title pages of vols. 3-4, having been changed by error from M.DCC.LXXXII to M.DCC.LXXVII.  Cf. A. Corroënne.

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

Frontispiece and music are engraved.

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

Music: vol. 1: p. I-XXXIII; v. 2: p. I-XXXII; v. 3: p. I-XXIV; v. 4: I-XXVI.

Head-pieces; typographical rules and ornaments.

Signatures: [*]² a⁸ A-I¹² K²; [*]² A-I¹² K¹⁰; [*]² A-K¹²; [*]² A-K¹².

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