LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
All the reproductions are from illustrations etched or engraved by Choffard after his own designs and are practically the size of the originals, unless otherwise stated.
The frontispiece of this book is a tail-piece from “Contes et nouvelles en vers” by La Fontaine, 1762.
The reproduction facing the frontispiece is after Choffard’s visiting card.
The head-piece from Choffard’s book entitled “Notice historique sur l’art de la gravure en France,” 1804, is here used as a head-piece to “The life of Choffard.” This little composition is supposed, by some, to represent the artist himself, when a young man, in his studio.
A tail-piece from “Contes et nouvelles en vers” by La Fontaine, 1762, here forms a tail-piece to “The life of Choffard.”
A head-piece in “Dictionnaire des graveurs, etc.” by Basan, 1789, is here placed as a head-piece to “The art of Choffard.”
A tail-piece of “Traité du beau essentiel dans les arts, appliqué particulièrement à l’architecture, etc.” byBriseux,1752, is here used as a tail-piece to “The art of Choffard.” Much reduced.
The head-piece to the “Catalogue of Books” is a tail-piece from “Contes et nouvelles en vers” by La Fontaine, 1762.
A tail-piece from “Contes et nouvelles en vers” by La Fontaine, 1762, is here used for the same purpose for the “Catalogue of Books.”