Chansons Choisies, avec les airs notés.

A Geneve [no publisher] 1782 - 1787. 4 volumes. 12mo, 118 x 59 mms., pp. [ii], xvi, 220, xxxiii [being engraved plates of music with xxxiv blank]; [iv], 236, xxxii [engraved plates of music]; [iv], 240, xxiv [engraved plates of music]; 339 [sic, for 239, 240 blank], xxvi [engraved plates of music], including half-titles, engraved frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary calf, gilt spines (rubbed), volumes 2 and 4 with red morocco labels, lacking on other volumes, all edges gilt; some water-staining of half-titles and end-papers, tops and base of spines chipped, spine volume 4 creased, corners worn. The first volume has a note by the editors explaining the choices that have been made; it contains, among other songs, and "Chansons Érotiques et Anacréontiques": "Les pensées en doivent être fines, les sentimens délicats, les images douces, le style léger, les vers faciles." Volumes 2, 3, and 4 are given over to pastorals, village songs, poissardes, chansons libres et joyeuses, etc. This appears to correspond to OCLC 557980736, where the language is given as English, with locations in BL (2) and Bodleian, while Copac, adding a copy at the Royal College of Music, gives the language correctly as French, but gives the title as Nouveau recueil de chansons choisies: avec les airs notés. Copies at Utrecht University Library and at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Library give the publisher as Cazin in Paris.