404 - Laborde, (J.-B.) de. Choix de chansons mises en musique. 4 vols. Paris, Lormel, 1773. With 4 engraved title pages, 1 engraved dedication page with the coat of arms of Marie Antoinette, 1 engraved portrait and 100 copperplate engravings by Moreau le Jeune, Barbier, Le Bouteux and Saint-Quentin, also with engraved text and musical notation. Contemporary marbled calfskin bindings with 2 green spine caps, gilt lettering, gilt fillets on the covers, gilt edges and inner margins, and gilt edges (somewhat rubbed).

Laborde, (J.-B.) de. Choix de chansons mises en musique. 4 vols. Paris, Lormel, 1773. With 4 engraved title pages, 1 engraved dedication page with the coat of arms of Marie Antoinette, 1 engraved portrait and 100 copperplate engravings by Moreau le Jeune, Barbier, Le Bouteux and Saint-Quentin, also with engraved text and musical notation. Contemporary marbled calfskin bindings with 2 green spine caps, gilt lettering, gilt fillets on the covers, gilt edges and inner margins, and gilt edges (somewhat rubbed). Cohen/Ricci 534; Slg. Fürstenberg 69; Lonchamp 248. - Second printing of the first edition of the magnificently produced song collection, a major work of 18th-century French book art, entirely engraved in copper. - Volume 1 was illustrated by Moreau and is considered his masterpiece. 'Its ... engravings ... herald the beginning of his best period. Cheerful, graceful, and self-assured, each of these plates appears like a charming little poem' (Fürstenberg 109). - With the portrait, drawn by Denon and showing Laborde in profile (dated 1774), included only in some copies. - Title of the first volume, flyleaves of the other volumes, and one page each with a Russian library stamp bearing the Tsarist eagle; endpapers each with faint traces of a removed bookplate.